I haven't used Akelos in quite sometime, but I have been working with rails a little more so I thought I'd give it another go. I've got everything set up on my Ubuntu 8.4, with php5, mysql5 standard set up. The only odd configuration is that I have /var/www/ softlinked to /media/disk/web/www/ so that I can share my webserver data between windows and linux.
Everything goes fine with the install, env php -v works, and the setup wizard runs and installs to the database, i can even migrate install the database on the command line without issue, but when i go to localhost/booklink/books in my browser I get this in plain text: