After several hours of battling with this anomaly, I've finally admitted defeat. If anyone here can help me I would be most grateful!
QUICK SUMMARY:
I have this error in my Nginx error log:
2009/11/09 02:49:59 [error] 90#0: *7 connect() to unix:/tmp/passenger.54/master/helper_server.sock
failed (61: Connection refused) while
connecting to upstream, client:
127.0.0.1, server: test.local, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream:
"passenger://unix:/tmp/passenger.54/master/helper_server.sock:",
host: "test.local"
The full details are below.
I've installed Nginx and Passenger on my local machine with a view to using it for local development. I was running Apache and Passenger but I was getting a few bugs so I decided to switch.
I installed the Passenger Nginx extension without any trouble into /usr/local/nginx
and configured Nginx in /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
For completeness here is the contents of nginx.conf:
worker_processes 2;
pid logs/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
passenger_root /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5;
passenger_ruby /usr/local/bin/ruby;
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
server {
listen 80;
server_name test.local;
root /Users/i0n/Sites/test/public;
passenger_enabled on;
rails_env development;
client_max_body_size 10M;
client_body_buffer_size 128k;
}
}
I then added /usr/local/nginx/sbin to my path variable. So far so good. If I start up Nginx from the terminal using sudo nginx I get no trouble whatsoever, I can view my test Rails app at http(colon)//test.local as expected.
The problem arrises when I try and configure the system to load Nginx on startup. I have followed the instructions from the Nginx wiki (with some adjustments for differing paths)
I have created a plist file in: /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/nginx.plist
It's contents look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key><string>nginx</string>
<key>Program</key><string>/usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx</string>
<key>KeepAlive</key><true/>
<key>NetworkState</key><true/>
<key>StandardErrorPath</key><string>/usr/local/nginx/logs/error.log</string>
<key>LaunchOnlyOnce</key><true/>
</dict>
</plist>
I then run sudo launchctl load -F /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/nginx.plist
If I reboot the system and go to http://test.local in the browser I see a page that says:
502 Bad Gateway nginx/0.7.61
If I look in the Nginx error log (which is at /usr/local/nginx/logs/error.log)
I see the following error recorded:
2009/11/09 02:49:59 [error] 90#0: *7 connect() to unix:/tmp/passenger.54/master/helper_server.sock
failed (61: Connection refused) while
connecting to upstream, client:
127.0.0.1, server: test.local, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream:
"passenger://unix:/tmp/passenger.54/master/helper_server.sock:",
host: "test.local"
If I manually stop and then start Nginx from the terminal using sudo it begins to work. To be honest this one has me stumped, it's probably something really simple but I just can't see it at the moment. Any thoughts or suggestions would be gratefully received. Thanks for taking the time to read this!
Ian