Phusion Passenger 3.0.4 released »
Created at: 02.03.2011 18:36, source: Phusion Corporate Blog, tagged: Phusion Passenger
Phusion Passenger is an Apache and Nginx module for deploying Ruby web applications. It has a strong focus on ease of use, stability and performance. Phusion Passenger is built on top of tried-and-true, battle-hardened Unix technologies, yet at the same time introduces innovations not found in most traditional Unix servers. Since version 3.0 it can also run standalone without an external web server, making it not only easier for first-time users but also ideal on development environments.
Recent changes
Phusion Passenger is under constant maintenance and development. We are pleased to announce Phusion Passenger version 3.0.4. This is a bug fix release.
- [Apache] Changed mod_dir workaround hook priority
Phusion Passenger temporarily disables mod_dir on all Phusion Passenger-handled requests in order to avoid conflicts. In order to do this it registers some Apache hooks with the APR_HOOK_MIDDLE priority, but it turned out that this breaks some other modules like mod_python. The hook priority has been changed to APR_HOOK_LAST to match mod_dir’s hook priorities. Issue reported by Jay Freeman. - Added support for Union Station.
Union Station is our new web application performance monitoring and behavior analysis service. Read more about it at the announcement. - Some error messages have been improved.
How do I upgrade to 3.0.4?
Via a gem
First install the gem with the following command:
gem install passenger
If you’re using Phusion Passenger for Apache or for Nginx, then re-run the Apache or Nginx module installer, whichever is appropriate:
passenger-install-apache2-module passenger-install-nginx-module
At the end the installer will tell you to paste a configuration snippet into your web server config file. Replace the old snippet that you already had with this new one.
Phusion Passenger Standalone users don’t need to run anything else. Whenever you type
passenger start
it will automatically upgrade itself.
Via Ubuntu packages
John Leach from Brightbox has kindly provided Ubuntu packages for Phusion Passenger. The package is available from the Brightbox repository which you can find at:
http://apt.brightbox.net
Add the following line to the Third Party Software Sources:
deb http://apt.brightbox.net hardy main
(The simplest way to do that is to create a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ containing the deb instruction, and then run ‘apt-get update’).
Once you’ve done this then you can install Phusion Passenger by running:
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-passenger
-or-
sudo apt-get install nginx-brightbox
(Note that John is currently packaging 3.0.4, so it might take a while before this release shows up in the apt repository.)
Via RedHat/CentOS packages
YUM repositories with RPMs are maintained by Erik Ogan and Stealthy Monkeys Consulting. Please note that Erik is currently packaging 3.0.4, so it might take a while before this release shows up in the yum repositories.
Step 1: install the release package
The easiest way to install Phusion Passenger and keep it up to date is to install the passenger-release package from the main repository:
Fedora Core 14:
rpm -Uvh http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/fedora/14/passenger-release.noarch.rpm
Fedora Core 13:
rpm -Uvh http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/fedora/13/passenger-release.noarch.rpm
RHEL 5 / CentOS 5 / ScientificLinux 5:
(Note: these packages depend on EPEL.)
rpm -Uvh http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/rhel/5/passenger-release.noarch.rpm
RHEL 6 / CentOS 6 / ScientificLinux 6:
These packages will be available as soon as there is a stable beta of either CentOS 6 or SL 6 to use as a build platform.
Step 2: use Yum
From there you can use Yum to install packages. For example, try one of these:
yum install nginx-passenger
or
yum install mod_passenger
or
yum install passenger-standalone
Building your own packages
There are instructions for building your own packages and Yum repositories in the rpm directory ReadMe within the GitHub repository.
Final
Phusion Passenger is provided to the community for free. If you like Phusion Passenger, please consider sending us a donation. Thank you!
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Phusion Passenger 3.0.3 released »
Created at: 24.02.2011 16:42, source: Phusion Corporate Blog, tagged: Phusion Passenger
Phusion Passenger is an Apache and Nginx module for deploying Ruby web applications. It has a strong focus on ease of use, stability and performance. Phusion Passenger is built on top of tried-and-true, battle-hardened Unix technologies, yet at the same time introduces innovations not found in most traditional Unix servers. Since version 3.0 it can also run standalone without an external web server, making it not only easier for first-time users but also ideal on development environments.
Recent changes
Phusion Passenger is under constant maintenance and development. We are pleased to announce Phusion Passenger version 3.0.3. This is a bug fix release.
- [Nginx] Preferred Nginx version upgraded to 0.8.54
- The previous preferred version was 0.8.53.
- PATH_INFO and REQUEST_URI now contain the original escaped URI
- Phusion Passenger passes the URI, as reported by Apache/Nginx, to application processes through the PATH_INFO and REQUEST_URI variables. These variables are supposed to contain the original, unescaped URI, e.g.
/clubs/%C3%BC. Both Apache and Nginx thought that it would be a good idea to unescape the URI before passing it to modules like Phusion Passenger, thereby causing PATH_INFO and REQUEST_URI to contain the unescaped URI, e.g./clubs/ü. This causes all sorts of encoding problems. We now manually re-escape the URI when setting PATH_INFO and REQUEST_URI. Issue #404. - The installer no longer detects directories as potential commands
- Previously the installer would look in $PATH for everything that’s executable, including directories. If one has /usr/lib in $PATH and a directory /usr/lib/gcc exists then the installer would recognize /usr/lib/gcc as the compiler. We now explicitly check whether the item is also a file.
- PseudoIO now responds to #to_io
- Phusion Passenger sets STDERR to a PseudoIO object in order to capture anything written to STDERR during application startup. This breaks some libraries which expect STDERR to respond to #to_io. This has now been fixed. Issue #607.
- Fixed various other minor bugs
- See the git commit log for details.
How do I upgrade to 3.0.3?
Via a gem
First install the gem with the following command:
gem install passenger
If you’re using Phusion Passenger for Apache or for Nginx, then re-run the Apache or Nginx module installer, whichever is appropriate:
passenger-install-apache2-module passenger-install-nginx-module
At the end the installer will tell you to paste a configuration snippet into your web server config file. Replace the old snippet that you already had with this new one.
Phusion Passenger Standalone users don’t need to run anything else. Whenever you type
passenger start
it will automatically upgrade itself.
Via Ubuntu packages
John Leach from Brightbox has kindly provided Ubuntu packages for Phusion Passenger. The package is available from the Brightbox repository which you can find at:
http://apt.brightbox.net
Add the following line to the Third Party Software Sources:
deb http://apt.brightbox.net hardy main
(The simplest way to do that is to create a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ containing the deb instruction, and then run ‘apt-get update’).
Once you’ve done this then you can install Phusion Passenger by running:
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-passenger
-or-
sudo apt-get install nginx-brightbox
(Note that John is currently packaging 3.0.3, so it might take a while before this release shows up in the apt repository.)
Via RedHat/CentOS packages
YUM repositories with RPMs are maintained by Erik Ogan and Stealthy Monkeys Consulting. Please note that Erik is currently packaging 3.0.3, so it might take a while before this release shows up in the yum repositories.
Step 1: install the release package
The easiest way to install Phusion Passenger and keep it up to date is to install the passenger-release package from the main repository:
Fedora Core 14:
rpm -Uvh http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/fedora/14/passenger-release.noarch.rpm
Fedora Core 13:
rpm -Uvh http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/fedora/13/passenger-release.noarch.rpm
RHEL 5 / CentOS 5 / ScientificLinux 5:
(Note: these packages depend on EPEL.)
rpm -Uvh http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/rhel/5/passenger-release.noarch.rpm
RHEL 6 / CentOS 6 / ScientificLinux 6:
These packages will be available as soon as there is a stable beta of either CentOS 6 or SL 6 to use as a build platform.
Step 2: use Yum
From there you can use Yum to install packages. For example, try one of these:
yum install nginx-passenger
or
yum install mod_passenger
or
yum install passenger-standalone
Building your own packages
There are instructions for building your own packages and Yum repositories in the rpm directory ReadMe within the GitHub repository.
Final
Phusion Passenger is provided to the community for free. If you like Phusion Passenger, please consider sending us a donation. Thank you!
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Update on the YUM repository’s downtime »
Created at: 20.01.2011 12:51, source: Phusion Corporate Blog, tagged: Phusion Passenger
Erik Ogan has posted an update on the recent YUM repository’s downtime:
Last Tuesday the server running the Stealthy Monkeys RPM repository suffered a catastrophic failure. We’ve had many setbacks getting it up and running again. I’ll spare you the details.
In light of the current situation, and the slow progress toward resolution, I’ve put a temporary repository up on other hardware. It isn’t the complete repository, but it does have up-to-date packages for all the supported distributions, versions, and architectures.
I’ve updated the DNS to point to the new server, but if you’re still having trouble accessing it (probably because the record is cached), we also set up an alias at http://passenger.haq.net. Either one should be able to install packages*.
I (Erik) would like to apologize for the inconvenience this has caused. We’ll keep you posted about developments.
[*] If your DNS is tenacious, you may have to temporarily edit the /etc/yum.repos.d/passenger. file to point at the haq.net mirror. We’re looking at a better way to locate the mirrors file.
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Phusion Passenger native packages for RedHat/Fedora/CentOS »
Created at: 04.01.2011 11:54, source: Phusion Corporate Blog, tagged: Phusion Passenger
We are pleased to announce native Linux packages for RedHat/Fedora derived RPM distributions, including RHEL, Fedora, CentOS, and ScientificLinux. Installation and updates can be accomplished via yum, and the passenger-release package includes all of the necessary yum configuration.
Installation
The easiest way to install Phusion Passenger and keep it up to date is to install the passenger-release package from the main repository:
- Fedora Core 14:
-
rpm -Uvh http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/fedora/14/passenger-release.noarch.rpm
- Fedora Core 13:
-
rpm -Uvh http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/fedora/13/passenger-release.noarch.rpm
- RHEL 5 / CentOS 5 / ScientificLinux 5:
- Note: these packages depend on EPEL.
rpm -Uvh http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/rhel/5/passenger-release.noarch.rpm
- RHEL 6 / CentOS 6 / ScientificLinux 6:
- These packages will be available as soon as there is a stable beta of either CentOS 6 or SL 6 to use as a build platform.
From there you can use Yum to install packages. For example, try one of these:
yum install nginx-passenger
or
yum install mod_passenger
or
yum install passenger-standalone
Building your own packages
There are instructions for building your own packages and Yum repositories in the rpm directory ReadMe within the GitHub repository.
Additional Information
These packages are currently being maintained by Erik Ogan and Stealthy Monkeys Consulting. Questions, comments, patches, and pull requests are always welcome.
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Phusion Passenger 3.0.2 released »
Created at: 16.12.2010 15:07, source: Phusion Corporate Blog, tagged: Phusion Passenger
Phusion Passenger is an Apache and Nginx module for deploying Ruby web applications. It has a strong focus on ease of use, stability and performance. Phusion Passenger is built on top of tried-and-true, battle-hardened Unix technologies, yet at the same time introduces innovations not found in most traditional Unix servers. Since version 3.0 it can also run standalone without an external web server, making it not only easier for first-time users but also ideal on development environments.
Recent changes
Phusion Passenger is under constant maintenance and development. We are pleased to announce Phusion Passenger version 3.0.2. This is a bug fix release.
- [Nginx] Fixed compilation problems
- The Nginx compilation process was broken due to not correctly reverting the working directory of the Nginx configure script. This has been fixed: issue #595.
- [Nginx] Fixed crash if passenger_root refers to a nonexistant directory
- Issue #599.
- Fixed compilation problems on NetBSD
- There was a typo in a NetBSD-specific fcntl() call. It also turns out that NetBSD doesn’t support some ISO C99 math functions like llroundl(); this has been worked around by using other functions. Issue #593.
- Fixed file descriptor closing issues on FreeBSD
- Phusion Passenger child processes didn’t correct close file descriptors on FreeBSD because it queries /dev/fd to do that. On FreeBSD /dev/fd only returns meaningful results if fdescfs is mounted, which it isn’t by default. Issue #597.
How do I upgrade to 3.0.2?
Via a gem
First install the gem with the following command:
gem install passenger
If you’re using Phusion Passenger for Apache or for Nginx, then re-run the Apache or Nginx module installer, whichever is appropriate:
passenger-install-apache2-module passenger-install-nginx-module
At the end the installer will tell you to paste a configuration snippet into your web server config file. Replace the old snippet that you already had with this new one.
Phusion Passenger Standalone users don’t need to run anything else. Whenever you type
passenger start
it will automatically upgrade itself.
Via a native Linux package
John Leach from Brightbox has kindly provided Ubuntu packages for Phusion Passenger. The package is available from the Brightbox repository which you can find at:
http://apt.brightbox.net
Add the following line to the Third Party Software Sources:
deb http://apt.brightbox.net hardy main
(The simplest way to do that is to create a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ containing the deb instruction, and then run ‘apt-get update’).
Once you’ve done this then you can install Phusion Passenger by running:
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-passenger
-or-
sudo apt-get install nginx-brightbox
(Note that John is currently packaging 3.0.2, so it might take a while before this release shows up in the apt repository.)
Final
Phusion Passenger is provided to the community for free. If you like Phusion Passenger, please consider sending us a donation. Thank you!
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