Installing Phusion Passenger for Apache: Step 1.5

Every time I install Phusion Passenger I have to take a little detour between steps 1 and 2.

Step one is easy enough:

gem install passenger

Step two SHOULD be just as easy:

sudo passenger-install-apache2-module

But it’s not. My PATH is never set properly to find the executable.

To fix this I just need to add my gems/bin folder to the path and reload my environment:

echo "export PATH=\$PATH:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin" >> ~/.bashrc; source ~/.bashrc

Now I can proceed with step two.

For more information on installing Passenger with Apache, read the official documentation.