title: Deploying rails with capistrano + Nginx + Passenger + MYSQL to VPS
body: <p>This is my first time deploying a rails app and I'm finding the process very frustrating. For work related reasons we are using Rackspace cloud with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) and MYSQL instead of the Heroku route.</p>
  
  <p>I've been trying to figure this out for 2+ days and I'm finally turning to the community for help. Currently I'm getting a "404 Not Found Error on my server"</p>
  
  <p>I've followed Ryan's Screencasts on "Deploying to a VPS", "Capistrano Recipes", <a href="http://excid3.com/blog/setting-up-ubuntu-12-04-with-ruby-1-9-3-nginx-passenger-and-postgresql-or-mysql/" rel="nofollow">this tutorial</a>, and others on google etc. and I'm still not quite there.</p>
  
  <p>I managed to get the following installed:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Node.js</li>
  <li>RVM</li>
  <li>ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-linux]</li>
  <li>Rails 3.2.8</li>
  <li>MYSQL</li>
  <li>Passenger</li>
  <li>Nginx</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I'm pretty sure I'm missing something simple in my Capistrano Deployer here:</p>
  
  <pre><code>require "bundler/capistrano"
  
  server "198.101.242.242", :web, :app, :db, primary: true
  
  set :application, "myapp"
  set :user, "deployer"
  set :deploy_to, "/home/#{user}/#{application}"
  set :deploy_via, :remote_cache
  set :use_sudo, false
  
  set :scm, "git"
  set :repository, "git@github.com:xxxx/#{application}.git"
  set :branch, "master"
  
  default_run_options[:pty] = true
  ssh_options[:forward_agent] = true
  
  # if you want to clean up old releases on each deploy uncomment this:
  after "deploy", "deploy:cleanup"
  
  # if you're still using the script/reaper helper you will need
  # these http://github.com/rails/irs_process_scripts
  
  # If you are using Passenger mod_rails uncomment this:
  namespace :deploy do
    task :start do ; end
    task :stop do ; end
    task :restart, :roles =&gt; :app, :except =&gt; { :no_release =&gt; true } do
      run "#{try_sudo} touch #{File.join(current_path,'tmp','restart.txt')}"
    end
  end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there something I should be doing before deploying?</p>
  
  <p>Here are Nginx error logs:</p>
  
  <pre><code>2012/09/16 23:22:17 [error] 13939#0: *1 "/home/deployer/myapp/public/index.html" is not found (2: No such file or directory), client: ip, server: localhost, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", host: "ip"
  2012/09/16 23:22:17 [error] 13939#0: *1 open() "/home/deployer/myapp/public/favicon.ico" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: ip, server: localhost, request: "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1", host: "65.61.189.109"
  2012/09/16 23:22:19 [error] 13939#0: *1 "/home/deployer/myapp/public/index.html" is not found (2: No such file or directory), client: ip, server: localhost, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", host: "ip"
  2012/09/16 23:22:19 [error] 13939#0: *1 open() "/home/deployer/myapp/public/favicon.ico" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: ip, server: localhost, request: "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1", host: "ip"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Nginx Server Config File:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    #user  nobody;
  worker_processes  1;
  
  #error_log  logs/error.log;
  #error_log  logs/error.log  notice;
  #error_log  logs/error.log  info;
  
  #pid        logs/nginx.pid;
  
  
  events {
      worker_connections  1024;
  }
  
  
  http {
      passenger_root /home/deployer/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/passenger-3.0.17;
      passenger_ruby /home/deployer/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.3-p194/ruby;
  
      include       mime.types;
      default_type  application/octet-stream;
  
      #log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
      #                  '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
      #                  '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
  
      #access_log  logs/access.log  main;
  
      sendfile        on;
      #tcp_nopush     on;
  
      #keepalive_timeout  0;
      keepalive_timeout  65;
  
      #gzip  on;
  
      server {
  
        listen 80;
        server_name localhost;
        location / {
              root /home/deployer/myapp/public;   # &lt;--- be sure to point to 'public'!
        }
        passenger_enabled on;
  
          # listen       80;
          # server_name  localhost;
  
          #charset koi8-r;
  
          #access_log  logs/host.access.log  main;
  
          # location / {
          #     root   html;
          #     index  index.html index.htm;
          # }
  
          #error_page  404              /404.html;
  
          # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
          #
          # error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
          # location = /50x.html {
          #     root   html;
          # }
  
          # proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80
          #
          #location ~ \.php$ {
          #    proxy_pass   http://127.0.0.1;
          #}
  
          # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
          #
          #location ~ \.php$ {
          #    root           html;
          #    fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
          #    fastcgi_index  index.php;
          #    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /scripts$fastcgi_script_name;
          #    include        fastcgi_params;
          #}
  
          # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
          # concurs with nginx's one
          #
          #location ~ /\.ht {
          #    deny  all;
          #}
      }
  
     # server {
     #    listen 80;
     #    server_name localhost;
     #      location / {
     #            root /home/deployer/myapp/public;   # &lt;--- be sure to point to 'public'!
     #    }
     #      passenger_enabled on;
     # }
  
  
      # another virtual host using mix of IP-, name-, and port-based configuration
      #
      #server {
      #    listen       8000;
      #    listen       somename:8080;
      #    server_name  somename  alias  another.alias;
  
      #    location / {
      #        root   html;
      #        index  index.html index.htm;
      #    }
      #}
  
  
      # HTTPS server
      #
      #server {
      #    listen       443;
      #    server_name  localhost;
  
      #    ssl                  on;
      #    ssl_certificate      cert.pem;
      #    ssl_certificate_key  cert.key;
  
      #    ssl_session_timeout  5m;
  
      #    ssl_protocols  SSLv2 SSLv3 TLSv1;
      #    ssl_ciphers  HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
      #    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers   on;
  
      #    location / {
      #        root   html;
      #        index  index.html index.htm;
      #    }
      #}
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>