building passenger with macports in os x leopard and hosting with apache and create an alias with railsbaseuri

Installing Passenger should be very easy. Please try following my steps below and you should get some good success. I built and used the following configuration with Mac OSX 10.6. But I am sure changes in the OS/Passenger/Ruby will change in the future. You will need to have the following for this article:

1. MacPorts installed
2. No fear of using the terminal

Below are the steps necessary to do everything, after that is a list of commands I used that follow the steps:

1. Install the Passenger gem
2. Install the Apache2 with MacPorts
3. Set variable APXS for building passenger module
4. Run build and install for Passenger module for Apache 2
5. Edit Apache Conf file

Here is what I typed in (I have also attached Instructions on how to install Passenger and host Ruby on Rails with either Virtualhost or RailsBaseURI for downloading):

1. gem install passenger
2. port install apache2
3. export APXS=/opt/local/apache2/bin/apxs
4. passenger-install-apache2-module
5. edit your apache conf file to add the following lines
   1. LoadModule passenger_module /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.0.6/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
   2. PassengerRoot /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.0.6
   3. PassengerRuby /opt/local/bin/ruby
6. host your rails app with either a virtual host or RailsBaseURI /path/to/app/dir
   1. virtual host
      1. text to put in your apache conf
         1. <VirtualHost *:80>
         2. ServerName www.yourhost.com
         3. DocumentRoot /somewhere/public
         4. </VirtualHost>
   2. alias with railsbaseuri
      1. cd /somewhere/already
      2. ln -s /rails_app/public /new_app
      3. text to put in your apache conf
         1. <VirtualHost *:80>
         2. ServerName www.yourhost.com
         3. DocumentRoot /somewhere/already
         4. RailsBaseURI /new_app
         5. </VirtualHost>