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I’ve successfully setup my Rails on Passenger. It was not a swift tasks as I was trying to setup it on ‘my’ XAMPP.

I had XAMPP all the way since I’ve started development on PHP. Don’t want to install different Apache server just to setup Passenger. Because of that, I took 1 full day of my life to finally have a functional Rails with Passenger on Apache in XAMPP.

(assuming you had Rails with Mongrel and XAMPP already)

1. Install gem Passenger
2. Download XAMPP dev (this is the key for success!)
3. Run passenger install script
4. Modify Apache .conf file

(you’re ready to go)

Add some miscellaneous (that’ll make your life easier)

1. Download and install Passenger Preference Pane

1. Install gem Passenger

$ sudo gem install passenger

2. Download XAMPP Developer

XAMPP Developer package for Mac

3. Run passenger install script for Apache

$ sudo passenger-install-apache2-module

(No. 4 step is given at the end of module installation above)

Download & install Passenger Preference Pane here

legal-bytes.com was down and at the time of posting, it’s still down. I’ve just waiting for the domain changes to take effect.

I thought, it was the problem related to the server and that I just need wait until it is fixed. It was down for 3 days (approximately) that I took the liberty to send a support ticket to Exabytes‘ support engineer. Immediately (not hour or even half an hour), they replied with the explanation:

For your information, the server 210.48.145.6 already migrate to the new data center and we have update the IP to 110.4.45.29

legal-bytes.com didn’t use their DNS records but just pointing the A record to the shared IP address associated with our hosting package. For that matter, I think, the update of the IP didn’t automatically configured to the domain and thus need the domain administrator to change it manually.

I was very very happy with Exabytes for the services they’ve given. Recommended if you are finding one.

Updates
Did asked if the old DNS still applied and the answer is “not anymore”. It has changed to

Old

ns67.mschosting.com 210.48.145.7
ns68.mschosting.com 210.48.145.8

New

ns101.mschosting.com 110.4.45.4
ns102.mschosting.com 72.18.132.245


I’m really tired. It has been a hectic weekend for me. Code code and more code. Learn Rails in two weeks while developing application at the same time. Today, I think I’ll stop here. The system seems O.K. I would like to enjoy my weekend left.