Question
How to setup prerender.io on my MEAN stack application running behind Nginx?
I have a Node application running behind Nginx on port:9000. My current nginx config file (/etc/nginx/conf.d/puanjai.com.conf) looks like so..
server {
listen 80;
server_name puanjai.com www.puanjai.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:9000;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
}
}
However, in Prerender.io’s documentation, (https://prerender.io/documentation) there is snippet for both Node and Nginx. And my guess is that I should use Nginix. And for Nginx, it tells me to use the snippet below which I have no idea how to integrate the following code with my current one to make things work.
https://gist.github.com/thoop/8165802
server {
listen 80;
server_name puanjai.com www.puanjai.com;
root /path/to/your/root;
index index.html;
location / {
try_files $uri @prerender;
}
location @prerender {
#proxy_set_header X-Prerender-Token wGvPrLPdSuDSpoxyOa46;
set $prerender 0;
if ($http_user_agent ~* "baiduspider|twitterbot|facebookexternalhit|rogerbot|linkedinbot|embedly|quora link preview|showyoubot|outbrain|pinterest|slackbot|vkShare|W3C_Validator") {
set $prerender 1;
}
if ($args ~ "_escaped_fragment_") {
set $prerender 1;
}
if ($http_user_agent ~ "Prerender") {
set $prerender 0;
}
if ($uri ~ "\.(js|css|xml|less|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|pdf|doc|txt|ico|rss|zip|mp3|rar|exe|wmv|doc|avi|ppt|mpg|mpeg|tif|wav|mov|psd|ai|xls|mp4|m4a|swf|dat|dmg|iso|flv|m4v|torrent|ttf|woff)") {
set $prerender 0;
}
#resolve using Google's DNS server to force DNS resolution and prevent caching of IPs
resolver 8.8.8.8;
if ($prerender = 1) {
#setting prerender as a variable forces DNS resolution since nginx caches IPs and doesnt play well with load balancing
set $prerender "service.prerender.io";
rewrite .* /$scheme://$host$request_uri? break;
proxy_pass http://$prerender;
}
if ($prerender = 0) {
rewrite .* /index.html break;
}
}
}
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