As you'll notice, I'm a bit of a noob on Rails. Here's the thing I have a EC2 Bitnami RubyStack AMI running. I'm trying to deploy the sample project to be sure I'm doing the right thing, but I'm not getting anywhere at all. I just get a 503 error I'm following bitnami's docs on thin + apache Here are my files: the httpd.conf I include in the main httpd.conf Alias /sample "/home/bitnami/stack/projects/sample/public" <Directory "/home/bitnami/stack/projects/sample/public"> AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ProxyPass /sample balancer://appcluster ProxyPassReverse /sample balancer://appcluster <Proxy balancer://appcluster> BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3001/sample BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3002/sample BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3003/sample BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3004/sample </Proxy> the thin.yml file chdir: /opt/bitnami/projects/sample environment: production address: 127.0.0.1 port: 3000 timeout: 30 log: log/thin.log pid: tmp/pids/thin.pid max_conns: 1024 max_persistent_conns: 512 require: [] wait: 30 servers: 5 prefix: /sample daemonize: true I'm able to start and stop apache, but thin does not stop correctly though. When I try to stop thin, I get this output /opt/bitnami/projects/sample$ sudo thin -C config/thin.yml stop Stopping server on 127.0.0.1:3000 ... Can't stop process, no PID found in tmp/pids/thin.3000.pid Stopping server on 127.0.0.1:3001 ... Can't stop process, no PID found in tmp/pids/thin.3001.pid Stopping server on 127.0.0.1:3002 ... Can't stop process, no PID found in tmp/pids/thin.3002.pid Stopping server on 127.0.0.1:3003 ... Can't stop process, no PID found in tmp/pids/thin.3003.pid Stopping server on 127.0.0.1:3004 ... Can't stop process, no PID found in tmp/pids/thin.3004.pid I've tried to use nginx as well, without any luck unfortunately. Thank you for your time and help!