gistfile1.txt

#user  nobody;
worker_processes  1;

#error_log  logs/error.log;
#error_log  logs/error.log  notice;
#error_log  logs/error.log  info;

#pid        logs/nginx.pid;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    #log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
    #                  '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
    #                  '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    #access_log  logs/access.log  main;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    #Say you have two apps, app_1 ...
    upstream superbowl {
      server 127.0.0.1:3005;
    }
    upstream oscars {
      server 127.0.0.1:3004;
    }

    #and app_2.
    upstream chad {
      server 127.0.0.1:3000;
    }

    server {
        listen       8080;
        server_name  *.localhostsvc.nytimes.com;

	if ($host ~* "^(.+).localhostsvc.nytimes.com"){
	   set $sub $1;
	}
        
        # listen at localhostsvc.localhost.com:8080 and intercept all requests to /svc/int

        location /svc/int {
          rewrite /svc/int/([^/]+)/(.*) /$2 break;
          proxy_pass http://$1/$2?$query_string;
          proxy_set_header Host $host:$server_port;
          proxy_redirect off;
        }

        # Here's the problem: many rails apps in development will refer to "/images/pretty.jpg".
        # In this proxy set up, since we stripped off /svc/int so that the app can handle it 
        # without additional app logic, "/images" points to the wrong thing. So we look at the
        # request, use that to figure out which app it came from and reappend the app route to 
        # our one-size fits all proxy.

        location / {
          if ($sub) {
            rewrite /(.*) /svc/int/$sub/$1;
          }
          root html;
        }
    }    
}