Comments on: Phusion Passenger 2.2.3 released – Bug Fix Edition

By: Mike Hagedon

Mike Hagedon — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:40:48 +0000

hongli: Done. Thanks!

By: hongli

hongli — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:04:41 +0000

Mike Hagedon: Not at this time, but you gave a valid reason to restore the old behavior. Could you file a bug report so that this issue doesn’t get lost?

By: Mike Hagedon

Mike Hagedon — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:35:33 +0000

“…through request.env['PATH']. You can no longer do that now. Access ENV['PATH'] instead.”

I’ve been modifying a Rails app to work with Shibboleth [http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/], and as far as I can tell this change breaks that. Shibboleth 2, by default, passes data through the Apache environment variables, but Passenger only sets ENV on startup. Since Shibboleth data is authorization-related, it needs to be request-specific. Having that data populated only on startup is fairly useless. Shibboleth does have an option to use HTTP headers instead, but those are not recommended because they’re more easily spoofed than environment variables. (Cf. recent IIS vulnerability)

Is there any way to get the environment variables into request.env? I don’t need the added mod_env functionality. As far as I can tell this all worked with 2.2.2.

This is the situation as I see it; it’s quite possible I’m confused about all this.

By: Quint

Quint — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:55:35 +0000

@mikhailov — There’s a reason that Nginx 0.7.6 isn’t the default version that Passenger installs and that is because it hasn’t yet been verified that that particular version of Nginx is stable alongside Passenger.

By: mikhailov

mikhailov — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:32:50 +0000

Installing the latest stable Nginx 0.7.6 regardless of the Nginx 0.6.3 by mod_rails defaults
http://www.railsgeek.com/2009/6/20/installing-the-latest-stable-nginx-0-7-6-regardless-of-the-nginx-0-6-3-by-mod_rails-default

By: The Knut Hellan Blog

The Knut Hellan Blog — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:41:53 +0000

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By: hongli

hongli — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:22:50 +0000

Juan: Phusion Passenger has got nothing to do with gem management.

By: Juan

Juan — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:48:28 +0000

And what about gems installed? Do I need to reinstall them?

Thanx

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Double Shot #477 « A Fresh Cup — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:25:28 +0000

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By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:42:13 +0000

This is great. Thanks for all of your hard work on this.