Install OpenProject on Ubuntu 12.04 with nginx

Question

Hey guys,

I’m running a Linux server on DigitalOcena where i have installed couple of Wordpress websites in LEMP environment (*).

Now I want to install OpenProject (info at https://OpenProject.org ) for my team in subdomain following this tutorial:

https://www.openproject.org/projects/openproject/wiki/Installation_Ubuntu

The tutorial seams easy, but i wonder what should be the nginx server block configuration at the etc/nginx/sites-available.

Any help?

Thank you!

(*) I have followed this tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-nginx-mysql-php-lemp-stack-on-ubuntu-12-04 to instal 2 websites, one in a domain.com and other in a sub.domain.com . It worked perfectly!

Shantanu B · Answer

Hello buddy, I am running a Droplet with Ubuntu 18.04. I have added a domain, lets say xyz.com with WordPress (SSL installed successfully) - and this is running fine. Now i would like to install openproject in a subdomain - lets say openproject.xyz.com (i have also created the subdomain perfectly with SSL installed - uploaded a dummy test html page onto it and it works just fine). But i am not able to install the openproject software package in the requite subdomain. I am using putty and have a root login as well. Any suggestions/help will be highly appreciated. Thanks

Andrew SB · Answer

Looking at the installation instructions, it looks like it is a rails app the is served on port 3000. So you’d simply need to add a server block that acts as a reverse proxy. It would look something like:

upstream app_server {server 127.0.0.1:3000 fail_timeout=0;} server {listen 80;server_name projects.example.com ;root /path/to/openproject/public; location / { try_files $uri/index.html $uri.html $uri @app; } 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; } }

For production, you’ll probably want to look into using something like passenger to serve the app.

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