Nginx在子uri上托管单个Rails应用程序

Question

Background:

• I am running a debian 7 server behind a reverse proxy.
• I have a rails 4 app running ruby 2.0.0-p247
• I am using nginx
• Server is accessed by navigating to: server-name.foo.dev where foo.dev is the internal reverse proxy domain.
• I am unable to use passenger to deploy the app.
• This will be the only app running on the server.

Problem:

I need to host the rails app on a sub uri or context root path on the server behind the reverse proxy, so that when users navigate to the website, the url for the root path looks like this:

• server-name.foo.dev/rails_app, where rails_app would be the root of the rails app.

How would I set this up in nginx sites-enabled config file, and is there anything I would have to modify on the rails app to allow it to sever the correct paths to static content.

Answer 1

I strongly recommend to use Unicorn instead of Passenger. You can set up both of them(Unicorn and Nginx) as reverse proxy. This link will be pretty good paper for you..

Again, you 'rewrite'(Nginx route feature) /rails_app to rails application's Unicorn socket file(usually using upstream).

See also below code snippets.

partial nginx.conf

location ~* ^/(rails_app)/ {
  root   /your/rails/home;
  index  index.html index.htm;
  proxy_pass http://socket_proxy_name;
}

partial snippet for proxy_pass

upstream socket_proxy_name{
  server unix:/your/socket/paht.sock fail_timeout=0;
}