Been struggling to get Redmine working with Mongrel instead of using Apache + FastCGI (been using this setup for while till this defect kept on bugging me and my teammates: http://www.redmine.org/boards/2/topics/5864), when the cause was simply a bug with cpanel’s generated .htaccess file for the subdomain internal proxy redirect.

Now before arriving to this conclusion I thought that wordpress’ .htaccess file was conflicting with the subdomain’s .htaccess file since it redirects to the docroot folder albeit on a different port, now take note that this is the first time I tried using Mongrel and I have absolutely no Ruby on Rails experience, so being half-awake as I am during the morning I tried moving the wordpress’ installation from the docroot folder to a subdomain when the ftp client I was using at that time decided that before moving the files it should delete the source file AND THEN paste it to the new location, naturally it would result in an error being that the source files were not found. Ok now you’re thinking why I haven’t noticed that it was deleting the files, I stepped out while it was starting to move the files. So having no backups whatsoever I started to look for backup features of my hosting package to no avail, until I discovered this little gem: http://www.a2hosting.com/blog/a2-hosting-releases-server-rewind-backup-technology/. Suffice to say that it did the job, albeit a little slow, but better than nothing.

Lesson learned: always backup before doing anything.

On a side note, Redmine on Mongrel is just wicked fast!