I confirm the bug. When downgrading to version 2.2.11debian-2, no issues. Redmine environment: Redmine version 2.2.3.stable.11436 Ruby version 1.8.7 (x86_64-linux) Rails version 3.2.12
Here are the Apache logs: [ pid=4904 file=ext/apache2/Hooks.cpp:684 time=2016-01-21 10:24:08.988 ]: The backend application (process 4996) did not send a valid HTTP response; instead, it sent nothing at all. It is possible that i t has crashed; please check whether there are crashing bugs in this application. *** Exception ActionController::UnknownHttpMethod in PhusionPassenger::Rack::ApplicationSpawner (, accepted HTTP methods are OPTION S, GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, CONNECT, PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, MKCOL, COPY, MOVE, LOCK, UNLOCK, VERSION-CONTROL, REPORT, CHE CKOUT, CHECKIN, UNCHECKOUT, MKWORKSPACE, UPDATE, LABEL, MERGE, BASELINE-CONTROL, MKACTIVITY, ORDERPATCH, ACL, SEARCH, and PATCH) (p rocess 4996): from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-3.2.12/lib/action_dispatch/http/request.rb:275:in `check_method' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-3.2.12/lib/action_dispatch/http/request.rb:68:in `request_method' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.2.12/lib/rails/rack/logger.rb:40:in `started_request_message' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.2.12/lib/rails/rack/logger.rb:31:in `call_app' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.2.12/lib/rails/rack/logger.rb:16:in `call' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.2.12/lib/active_support/tagged_logging.rb:22:in `tagged' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.2.12/lib/rails/rack/logger.rb:16:in `call' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-3.2.12/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/request_id.rb:22:in `call' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.4.5/lib/rack/methodoverride.rb:21:in `call' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.4.5/lib/rack/runtime.rb:17:in `call' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.2.12/lib/active_support/cache/strategy/local_cache.rb:72:in `call' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.4.5/lib/rack/lock.rb:15:in `call' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-3.2.12/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/static.rb:62:in `call' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rack-cache-1.2/lib/rack/cache/context.rb:136:in `forward' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rack-cache-1.2/lib/rack/cache/context.rb:143:in `pass' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rack-cache-1.2/lib/rack/cache/context.rb:155:in `invalidate' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rack-cache-1.2/lib/rack/cache/context.rb:71:in `call!' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rack-cache-1.2/lib/rack/cache/context.rb:51:in `call' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.2.12/lib/rails/engine.rb:479:in `call' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.2.12/lib/rails/application.rb:223:in `call' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.2.12/lib/rails/railtie/configurable.rb:30:in `send' from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/railties-3.2.12/lib/rails/railtie/configurable.rb:30:in `method_missing' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/phusion_passenger/rack/request_handler.rb:92:in `process_request' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/phusion_passenger/abstract_request_handler.rb:207:in `main_loop' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/phusion_passenger/rack/application_spawner.rb:118:in `run' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/phusion_passenger/rack/application_spawner.rb:65:in `spawn_application' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/phusion_passenger/utils.rb:184:in `safe_fork' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/phusion_passenger/rack/application_spawner.rb:58:in `spawn_application' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/phusion_passenger/rack/application_spawner.rb:41:in `spawn_application' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:159:in `spawn_application' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:287:in `handle_spawn_application' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:352:in `__send__' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:352:in `main_loop' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:196:in `start_synchronously' from /usr/lib/phusion_passenger/passenger-spawn-server:61 [Thu Jan 21 10:24:58 2016] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down