Rails via Mongrel: Litespeed dies upon restart

[alaithea]

I've tried about ten times now to follow the directions in http://www.railtie.net/articles/2006...speed-of-light, modified to fit the directions at http://weblog.techno-weenie.net/2006...d-with-mongrel. Every time I finish following the directions, the web server dies upon applying the changes and clicking graceful-restart, and can't be brought back up until I reinstall it and go through everything again, at which point it dies once again. I've even tried it with FCGI, just as described in Bob Silva's tutorial.

I have mongrel running fine, as I can access my rails app via one of the ports that mongrel is running on.

If I try to start the server after the inital failure at the command line via

/opt/lsws/bin/lswsctrl start

I get this error:

Can't determine the Home of LiteSpeed Web Server, exit!
[ERROR] Failed to start lshttpd!

If I try to start it as sudo, it will tell me it has started, but the process is subsequently nowhere to be found, and if I run the stop script, it tells me it's not running.

The error.log is not very helpful to my eyes:

2006-05-15 17:35:33.194 [NOTICE] Loading LiteSpeed/2.1.15 Standard ...
2006-05-15 17:35:33.298 [NOTICE] [ADMIN] server socket: 127.0.0.1:7923
2006-05-15 17:35:33.298 [NOTICE] Loading configuration from /opt/lsws/conf/httpd
_config.xml ...
2006-05-15 17:35:33.299 [INFO] old priority: 0, new priority: 0
2006-05-15 17:35:33.299 [INFO] [config:server:basic] For better obscurity, serve
r version number is hidden in the response header.
2006-05-15 17:35:33.302 [NOTICE] The maximum number of file descriptor limit is 
set to 1024.
2006-05-15 17:35:33.305 [NOTICE] [child: 1305] Successfully change current user 
to www-data
2006-05-15 17:35:33.305 [NOTICE] [Child: 1305] Core dump is enabled.
2006-05-15 17:35:33.305 [NOTICE] [Child: 1305] Setup swapping space...
2006-05-15 17:35:33.306 [NOTICE] [AutoRestarter] new child process with pid=1305
 is forked!
2006-05-15 17:35:33.333 [NOTICE] [Child: 1305] LiteSpeed/2.1.15 Standard starts 
successfully!
2006-05-15 17:35:34.002 [NOTICE] [AutoUpdate] Checking for new releases...
2006-05-15 17:35:38.343 [INFO] [AutoUpdate] No new update.
2006-05-15 17:37:09.548 [NOTICE] Server restart request from admin interface!
2006-05-15 17:37:09.553 [NOTICE] [Child: 1305] Start shutting down gracefully ..
.
2006-05-15 17:37:09.553 [INFO] Stop listener *:8088.

Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated!