Tracks

How to install Tracks on a Cpanel / WHM server?

2008-07-20T04:36:57+00:00

I hope someone can answer my question or provide so tip to guide me on installing Tracks on my cPanel / WHM based virtual private server.

I have full root access to this server so I can install whatever I like.

The version of the OS, cPanel and WHM are:

- CENTOS Enterprise 4.6 i686 on virtuozzo - WHM X v3.1.0
- WHM 11.23.2
- cPanel 11.23.4-S26138

The cPanel server is running Apache 2.2.8 with FastCGI implemented

I have installed Ruby on Rail using these instructions:

http://www.cpanel.net/docs/ror/index.html

Everything appeared to complete successfully. Ruby is version 1.8.7 and Gem is version 1.2.0.

I have installed Tracks using the instructions on this page:

http://www.rousette.org.uk/projects/manual/index#signup_install

The Tracks configuration files were edited. The MySQL DB was successfully created and the !# line dispatch.* files were edited so that is pointed to the correct location of the dispatch.rb file:

#!/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.1.0/lib/dispatcher

The Tracks software is installed in the following directory:

/home/username/public_html/tracks-1.6/

I have created a symbolic link called ‘tracks’ which points to:

/home/username/public_html/tracks-1.6/public

I have set up a sub-domain called ‘tracks.mydomain.com’ and made the appropriate DNS entry changes.

I went to the page “http://tracks.mydomain.com:3000/signup” and was able to create and account.

I then went to the page “http://tracks.mydomain.com:3000/login” and entered the credentials of the new account. I recevied the following error page.

Application error (Apache)

Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html

Interestingly if I can use the mobile version of with the URL of http://tracks.mydomain.com:3000/mobile I can login successfully and use all of the mobile functions.

I have a copy of the Tracks server log showing the errors generated but apparently I am unable to add it as an attachment to this post. If someone needs to see it please ask.

Thanks in advance to all who take the time to read my question and reply.

Regards,
Steve

Tracks using SSL

2008-10-05T19:04:27+00:00

Has anyone installed Tracks with SSL. My installation is on a hosted site and I would prefer to have SSL implemented. I do not want to implement it for my entire domain, just for the Tracks application. Comments or suggestions would be appreciated.

Howto reset a user password?

2006-10-26T01:41:36+00:00

SUMMARY:

I need to reset my password!

GORY BACKGROUND:

I moved tracks from my home server to a Dreamhost account. I dumped my MySQL tracks db, uploaded it to Dreamhost, and reimported it. I then used instructions at http://www.javaconsulting.eu/. Everything is swell, I get the login screen, but I can’t login :)

I think I just need to reset the password. I am clueless on how the password encryption works. This is where my faith takes over. I’m thinking I can just do a SQL UPDATE on my row in the ‘users’ table and reset the ‘password’ and ‘word’ field. But before I commit to breaking something, I thought I’d ask!

BTW, the production.log file reports the following when I try to login (if this is helpful):

Processing LoginController#login (for [snip_ip_address] at 2006-10-25 18:37:09) [P
OST]
Session ID: [snip_session_id]
Parameters: {"user_login"=>"[snip_username]", “action"=>"login", “controller"=>"logi
n”, “user_password"=>"”, “login"=>"Login 302273"}
Rendering within layouts/login
Rendering login/login
Completed in 0.00375 (266 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.00186 (49%) | DB: 0.00118 (3
1%) | 200 OK [http://[snip_url]/login]

Litespeed optimization

2008-08-30T23:25:39+00:00

Hello,

I moved over to a litespeed host because fcgi was leaving hanging processes and dispatch.cgi was just too slow. Some things that I read here led me to believe that litespeed was faster. So, I purchased some space at Steadfast.net and set up the application there. But, now the application is slower than it was on the old host using dispatch.cgi. And when I try to implement dispatch.fcgi, it just displays the dispatch.fcgi file in text format as the web page.

What can I do to speed up the application under litespeed? It is a vanilla version of tracks 1.6. What configuration files need to be changed?

Thanks in advance,

Tom

Moving Tracks info from web host to personal computer?

2006-10-21T13:41:07+00:00

I posted this in the tips and tricks last night but haven’t gotten a response, so I thought I’d try here.

I’ve been using the hosted version of Tracks at tracks.tra.in and have been really happy. Chris does a great job. However, I’ve found myself needing access to Tracks without a web connection recently and have been thinking of switching to running it on my own laptop.

I have a lot of information already stored on the hosted version - is there a way to move my information to my local installation?

Thanks,
Betsey

Installing Tracks on Webhost - Server Error 500

2008-08-14T16:37:16+00:00

First, please excuse my bad english.
I tried to install Tracks on my webhosting, but if i want to open the url i get a 500 Server Error.

What is wrong?

Here is my developer.log:

RailsPlayground 500 errors after install

2008-04-22T14:41:25+00:00

Railsplayground was nice enough to do initial install of Tracks for me. I setup my first user and I can go to the root of the app when I am not logged in and I see the login form, but when I login, the root of the app (I guess it’s the dashboard) gives me 500 errors. There are a a couple of other places that also give me 500 errors but let’s start here and see if the fix for this also fixes those. Here is the log from when I open the index page while logged in.

Ideas on the problem? I condensed the log info in this post. Unfortunatly the forum wont let me upload the rest of the txt log file as an attachment :(

Processing TodosController#index (for 198.211.192.162 at 2008-04-22 10:32:29) [GET]
  Session ID: 8a0291f8ead3a9ad1d1f58d9b0dd1544
  Parameters: {"action"=>"index", "controller"=>"todos"}


ActiveRecord::ConfigurationError (Association named 'tags' was not found; perhaps you misspelled it?):
 
...

Rendering actionindexlayoutfalse within layouts/standard
Rendering todos/index


Processing TodosController#index (for 198.211.192.162 at 2008-04-22 10:32:29) [GET]
  Session ID: 8a0291f8ead3a9ad1d1f58d9b0dd1544
  Parameters: {"action"=>"index", "controller"=>"todos"}


ActionView::TemplateError (private method `select' called for nil:NilClass) on line #1 of app/views/contexts/_context.rhtml:
1: <% @not_done = @not_done_todos.select {|t| t.context_id == context.id } %>
2: <div id="c<%= context.id %>" class="container context" <%= "style="display:none"" if collapsible && @not_done.empty? %>>
3:   <h2>
4: <% if collapsible -%>

...

Rendering actionindexlayoutfalse within layouts/standard
Rendering todos/index


ActionView::TemplateError (private method `select' called for nil:NilClass) on line #1 of app/views/contexts/_context.rhtml:
1: <% @not_done = @not_done_todos.select {|t| t.context_id == context.id } %>
2: <div id="c<%= context.id %>" class="container context" <%= "style="display:none"" if collapsible && @not_done.empty? %>>
3:   <h2>
4: <% if collapsible -%>

...

On line #1 of app/views/contexts/_context.rhtml

    1: <% @not_done = @not_done_todos.select {|t| t.context_id == context.id } %>
    2: <div id="c<%= context.id %>" class="container context" <%= "style="display:none"" if collapsible && @not_done.empty? %>>
    3:   <h2>
    4: <% if collapsible -%>

Site5: Redirected to http://:/login

2008-07-11T16:18:31+00:00

Please see
http://dev.rousette.org.uk/ticket/745

for details.

I got latest version from git, configured database.conf, environment.rb (only changed seed and put RAILS_ENV to production), switched .htaccess to use .fcgi.

From the browser the app doesn’t start (Rails error).

Running dispatch.fcgi from commandline gives the code with “Redirected to http://:/login” link.

tracks install for dummies????

2008-05-09T06:09:14+00:00

Is there any who can help me installing on af nas server?

i tried but faild… is it simply to get things done?

Best regards!

Free Tracks Host?

2006-11-28T19:57:12+00:00

Hello,
I am finding it extremely hard to install Tracks on my computer, and since I use a webserver without root capabilities or Ruby, it is not possible to install it on another server.

Does anyone know of a free Tracks host that I could use? Thank you.
(I have seen the posts on this forum without success.)