Hi there!
I have successfully deployed a doplet using ubuntu + rails + nginx + unicorn. Everything is up and running.
Ideally I would like app.mydomain.com to run my ruby application and mydomain.com to serve static html content. Is that something that’s possible with nginx?
Thanks!
Alex
That’s definitely possible. You’ll just need to define a new server block in your Nginx configuration, pointing to the directory holding the static files. You also need to set server_name for each block so Nginx knows how to direct the requests.
Here’s an example:
- upstream app_server { server 127.0.0.1:8080 fail_timeout=0; }
-
- server {
- listen 80;
- root /home/rails/public;
- server_name app.mydomain.com;
- 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 @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;
- }
- }
-
- server {
- listen 80;
- root /var/www/html;
- server_name mydomain.com;
- index index.htm index.html;
-
- location / {
- try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
- }
-
- error_page 404 /404.html;
- error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
- location = /50x.html {
- root /usr/share/nginx/html;
- }
- }
For more information, check out these tutorials:
I’m attempting to do the same thing, but I’m using Puma instead of Unicorn (not sure if that makes a difference). I’m also trying to have two subdomains (api and ui), as my main domain currently points to a different IP address while I stage these changes.
My file looks like this:
upstream puma {
server unix:///home/rails/app-name/shared/tmp/sockets/app-name-puma.sock;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name api api.appname.info;
# Uses Capistrano's default settings
root /home/rails/app-name/current/public;
access_log /home/rails/app-name/current/log/nginx.access.log;
error_log /home/rails/app-name/current/log/nginx.error.log info;
location ^~ /assets/ {
gzip_static on;
expires max;
add_header Cache-Control public;
}
try_files $uri/index.html $uri @puma;
location @puma {
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_pass http://puma;
}
error_page 500 502 503 504 /500.html;
client_max_body_size 10M;
keepalive_timeout 10;
}
server {
listen 80 default_server;
server_name ui.appname.info;
root /var/www/html;
# Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
}