So, we all had to upgrade rvm, ruby, rails, and passenger on our app servers recently… because of security issues…

Which means, upgrading rvm gemsets and reinstalling passenger… which means recompiling mod_passenger.so and changing our apache configuration to match the changes.

What isn’t described is how to actually restart apache once you’ve changed all these things on the server.

A normal,

/etc/init.d/httpd graceful

Doesn’t do it; it doesn’t reload modules correctly. Ya need to take it all the way down:

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

shrug oh well!