Fedora won't work

[nrdobie]

I can't seem to get Prax to work in Fedora 19. I have modified the install and uninstall scripts to use the appropriate commands ( chkconfig instead of update-rc.d ). However I am still getting a domain not found issue.

[nessamurmur]

Same here. If you ever figured anything out I'd love to hear. Still troubleshooting.

[ysbaddaden]

I guess it must have something to do with nsswitch, maybe it's not used on Fedora to resolve hosts?

[klvmungai]

unstable branch works for me.. Fedora 20

[ysbaddaden]

Cool!

[torvum]

I found this thread and I'm excited to start using Prax on fedora 20, but since I'm a linux newb I can't quite figure it out.

What I've done so far:

Edited the prax-install file so that the line that reads:

sudo update-rc.d prax defaults

was replaced by

sudo chkconfig --add prax.

I'm also using the unstable branch. I linked my site and restarted chrome (my browser) but my server isn't working. Ideas?

[ysbaddaden]

Of course you ran prax install ?

[torvum]

Yeah, sorry. Forgot to mention that.

I'm new to ruby so I'm not 100% positive the directory I linked is sound, but I'm almost positive it is. At any rate, the domain doesn't get resolved anyways, which makes me things it's not my web app that's the problem.

[ysbaddaden]

You can try in a terminal:

$ getent hosts myapp.dev
::1             myapp.dev

If it doesn't resolve, then the nsswitch extension doesn't work, is missconfigured or maybe isn't used by Fedora?

[klvmungai]

I had the same issue with a new installation of fedora x64 which I managed to fix.
The domains on my part were not being resolved because libnss_prax.so.2 was not on the nsswitch search path. This can be fixed by moving it to the correct path like so

• first get nsswitch load path by locating libnss_dns.so

$ sudo updatedb
$ locate libnss_dns.so # my  result was `/usr/lib64/libnss_dns.so`

• Move libnss_prax.so.2 to the same folder as libnss_dns.so

$ sudo mv /lib/libnss_prax.so.2 /usr/lib64/

[ysbaddaden]

Thanks! I should modify the libexec/prax-install script to take care of that.

[terlar]

An alternative to run prax is to use dnsmasq for the .dev resolving and nginx for the routing. And then have prax in the stack. This is how I run it, and it works very well. If anyone is interested I could write down the instructions and they could be included in the documentation or something.

[ysbaddaden]

Please add wiki pages for this setup. Thanks!

[terlar]

I created the steps here:
https://github.com/ysbaddaden/prax/wiki/Alternate-setup

Feel free to modify.