Installing Passenger + Apache on a Digital Ocean production server
for Python apps + Debian 8 (with APT)
On this page, we will install Passenger. After installing Passenger we can begin with deploying the app.
Table of contents
Step 1: install Passenger packages
These commands will install Passenger + Apache module through Phusion's APT repository.
Copy# Install our PGP key and add HTTPS support for APT sudo apt-get install -y dirmngr gnupg sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 561F9B9CAC40B2F7 sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https ca-certificates # Add our APT repository sudo sh -c 'echo deb https://oss-binaries.phusionpassenger.com/apt/passenger jessie main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/passenger.list' sudo apt-get update # Install Passenger + Apache module sudo apt-get install -y libapache2-mod-passenger
Step 2: enable the Passenger Apache module and restart Apache
Copy$ sudo a2enmod passenger $ sudo apache2ctl restart
Step 3: check installation
After installation, please validate the install by running sudo /usr/bin/passenger-config validate-install. For example:
Copy$ sudo /usr/bin/passenger-config validate-install * Checking whether this Phusion Passenger install is in PATH... ✓ * Checking whether there are no other Phusion Passenger installations... ✓
All checks should pass. If any of the checks do not pass, please follow the suggestions on screen.
Finally, check whether Apache has started the Passenger core processes. Run sudo /usr/sbin/passenger-memory-stats. You should see Apache processes as well as Passenger processes. For example:
Copy$ sudo /usr/sbin/passenger-memory-stats Version: 5.0.8 Date : 2015-05-28 08:46:20 +0200 ---------- Apache processes ---------- PID PPID VMSize Private Name -------------------------------------- 3918 1 190.1 MB 0.1 MB /usr/sbin/apache2 ... ----- Passenger processes ------ PID VMSize Private Name -------------------------------- 12517 83.2 MB 0.6 MB Passenger watchdog 12520 266.0 MB 3.4 MB Passenger core 12531 149.5 MB 1.4 MB Passenger ust-router ...
If you do not see any Apache processes or Passenger processes, then you probably have some kind of installation problem or configuration problem. Please refer to the troubleshooting guide.
Step 4: update regularly
Apache updates, Passenger updates and system updates are delivered through the APT package manager regularly. You should run the following command regularly to keep them up to date:
Copy$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get upgrade
You do not need to restart Apache or Passenger after an update, and you also do not need to modify any configuration files after an update. That is all taken care of automatically for you by APT.
Next step
Now that you have installed Passenger, you are ready to deploy your Python application on the production server!