How To Install Rails, Apache, and MySQL on Ubuntu with Passenger

Intro

Setup

Step One—Install Rails Ready

wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/joshfng/railsready/master/railsready.sh && bash railsready.sh

Step Two—Install Apache with Phusion Passenger

rvm install 1.9.3

rvm use --default 1.9.3

gem install passenger

passenger-install-apache2-module

Step Three—Update the Apache configuration

The Apache 2 module was successfully installed.

Please edit your Apache configuration file, and add these lines:

   LoadModule passenger_module /home/username/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/passenger-3.0.12/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
   PassengerRoot /home/username/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/passenger-3.0.12
   PassengerRuby /home/username/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.3-p194/ruby

 sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Step Four—Install MySQL

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install mysql-server

UPDATE mysql.user SET Password = PASSWORD('password') WHERE User = 'root';