Installing Passenger-Apache2 on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Question

I'm trying to get passenger up and running to serve my rails app. I'm running rails 1.9.1 on a Mac running OS X 10.6.8. I've been able to install the passenger gem but when I run the command:

sudo passenger-install-apache2-module

The installation fails after a couple of minutes and says

    Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "___fork", referenced from:
      Passenger::asyncFork()     in Utils.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
rake aborted!
Command failed with status (1): [g++ buildout/agents/PassengerHelperAgent.o -o buildout/agents/PassengerHelperAgent buildout/common/libpassenger_common/Logging.o buildout/common/libpassenger_common/Utils/SystemTime.o buildout/common/libpassenger_common/Utils/StrIntUtils.o buildout/common/libpassenger_common/Utils/IOUtils.o buildout/common/libpassenger_common/Utils.o buildout/common/libpassenger_common/Utils/Base64.o buildout/common/libpassenger_common/Utils/CachedFileStat.o buildout/common/libpassenger_common/Utils/LargeFiles.o buildout/common/libpassenger_common/ApplicationPool2/Implementation.o buildout/common/libpassenger_common/ApplicationPool2/AppTypes.o buildout/common/libpassenger_common/AgentsBase.o buildout/common/libpassenger_common/Utils/MD5.o buildout/common/libpassenger_common/Utils/fib.o buildout/common/libpassenger_common/Utils/jsoncpp.o buildout/common/libboost_oxt.a  buildout/libev/.libs/libev.a buildout/libeio/.libs/libeio.a -lpthread -Wl,-dead_strip ]

Tasks: TOP => apache2 => buildout/agents/PassengerHelperAgent
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to rails so I apologize if this is a stupid error on my part. Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

I finally did get it to work (So Phusion Passenger not working on Snow Leopard is not the correct answer). I ended up installing passenger through homebrew with the command:

brew install passenger

and then installed it again using

sudo passenger-install-apache2-module

So if anybody else runs across this you might give that a try.

Answer 2

This is because of an incompatibility of Phusion Passenger with Snow Leopard. Phusion Passenger no longer supports Snow Leopard.