Hi,

I'm using Capistrano 2.4.3 to deploy my Rails app to my VPS server. My Subversion server is on a subdomain on the same VPS. My development environment is Ubuntu. I am attempting to deploy to a sandbox (another subdomain on this same VPS).

When I issue the 'cap deploy' command from within my application folder on Ubuntu, I get the following:


It prompts for a password. When I supply the sandbox password which is the password for FTP as configured in Plesk, I get the following. Note,  I can ssh to the sandbox no problem using this password:


I have googled till the cows come home and the only thing I've found for a solution is to login to my sandbox and do a svn co to a tmp folder. This is supposed to somehow 'train' my server to recognize what I am attempting to do. This solution is all over the net but it doesn't work for me. When I do it, it prompts me for the sandbox password then it prompts me for the Subversion username and password and proceeds to check out my app. When I go back to my project folder and attempt 'cap deploy' again, I get the same errors.

What am I doing wrong?

It seems to be some kind of permission problem but I don't know what. I'm giving it the passwords.

Any help would be appreciated,

George

I found the problem. Apparently I upgraded Capistrano and the svn username and password tags have been changed from svn_username and svn_password to scm_username and scm_password. I changed these in my deploy.rb and I was able to move forward. Capistrano now connects to my server and is able to connect to my Subversion repo and get the code downloaded.

It now fails with a rails incompatibility error which I discovered has to due with the fact that I'm running Rails 1.2.3 on my server but my development environment is running Rails 2.1.0.

I just spent several hours trying to figure out how to upgrade Rails on my server. Here is what I did.

I logged in to my server as root. Now this took me a while to figure out because in my wisdom, way back when I purchased this server, I disabled the root user for security reasons. Unfortunately, I didn't remember that fact and struggled for hour trying to figure out how to connect as root. Once I found my notes, I was able to login as root and "gem install rails -y" and rails 2.1.0 was installed on my server.

Now to see if Capistrano will install my app.

George