I just installed the nginx/rails configuration with Ubuntu 14.10 and I'm trying to have nginx point to various folders that are separate from rails, but I can't find any sites-available information, and it seems that /opt/nginx/conf/nginx.conf is also empty.
How can I add a simple route from "domain/stuff" to /var/www/stuff with this premade install?
Edit your server block (it should be in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled) and add the following location block:
location /stuff {
alias /var/www/stuff; # map /stuff to /var/www/stuff
index index.html; # assuming /var/www/stuff contain static files only
try_files $uri $uri/ =404; # requests under /stuff shouldn't be passed to rails
}
Then restart nginx:
sudo service nginx restart
This does work for some files, thank you. But I'm having an issue where if I try to access an image from that folder, it will still try to go to the rails target.
This is what it looks like:
server {
listen 80;
root /home/rails/public;
server_name _;
index index.htm index.html;
location / {
try_files $uri/index.html $uri.html $uri @app;
}
location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|p$
try_files $uri @app;
}
location /stuff {
alias /var/www/stuff;
index index.html;
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
autoindex on;
}
location @app {
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_pass http://app_server;
}
}
Hmm, I wasn't able to replicate that. Can you post the exact contents of your server block? It looks like it was cut off. Run the following command to print it:
cat /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/filename
Those are the exact contents. This is /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
server {
listen 80;
root /home/rails/public;
server_name _;
index index.htm index.html;
location / {
try_files $uri/index.html $uri.html $uri @app;
}
location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|mp3|flv|mpeg|avi)$ {
try_files $uri @app;
}
location /stuff {
alias /var/www/stuff;
index index.html;
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
autoindex on;
}
location @app {
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_pass http://app_server;
}
}
I'll also note that if I comment out that file handling section, I can access the file as expected. I'm just not sure why the try_files $uri part wouldn't catch it in the /var/www/stuff folder?