# server ip address (don't change) and port number (do change) # also include your apps cluster name here (myapp) upstream myapp { server 127.0.0.1:8000; # server 127.0.0.1:8001; <- example for 2 mongrels running on port 8000 and 8001 } # the server directive is nginx's virtual host directive. server { # port to listen on. Can also be set to an IP:PORT. listen 80; # Set the max size for file uploads to 50Mb client_max_body_size 50M; # sets the domain[s] that this vhost server requests for server_name mysite.com; # doc root root /var/www/apps/myapp/public; # vhost specific access log access_log /var/www/apps/myapp/log/nginx.vhost.access.log main; # NOTE Uncomment and edit to redirect all subdomains back to domain.com # Useful for sending .net and .org variants back to your site. # if ($host !~ ^domain\.com$) { # rewrite ^.+ http://domain.com$uri permanent; # break; # } # this rewrites all the requests to the maintenance.html # page if it exists in the doc root. This is for capistrano's # disable web task if (-f $document_root/system/maintenance.html) { rewrite ^(.*)$ /system/maintenance.html last; break; } location / { # Uncomment to allow server side includes so nginx can # post-process Rails content ## ssi on; # needed to forward user's IP address to rails proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; # needed for HTTPS proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header Host $http_host; proxy_redirect false; proxy_max_temp_file_size 0; # If the file exists as a static file serve it directly without # running all the other rewite tests on it if (-f $request_filename) { break; } # check for index.html for directory index # if its there on the filesystem then rewite # the url to add /index.html to the end of it # and then break to send it to the next config rules. if (-f $request_filename/index.html) { rewrite (.*) $1/index.html break; } # this is the meat of the rails page caching config # it adds .html to the end of the url and then checks # the filesystem for that file. If it exists, then we # rewite the url to have explicit .html on the end # and then send it on its way to the next config rule. # if there is no file on the fs then it sets all the # necessary headers and proxies to our upstream mongrels if (-f $request_filename.html) { rewrite (.*) $1.html break; } if (!-f $request_filename) { # Use other cluster name here if you are running multiple # virtual hosts. proxy_pass http://myapp; break; } } error_page 500 502 503 504 /500.html; location = /500.html { root /var/www/apps/myapp/public; } location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|js|png)$ { root /var/www/apps/myapp/public; access_log off; expires 30d; } }