nginx.conf

gistfile1.txt

The idea is to have nginx installed and node installed. I will extend this gist to include how to install those as well, but at the moment, the following assumes you have nginx 0.7.62 and node 0.2.3 installed on a Linux distro (I used Ubuntu).

In a nutshell,

1) nginx is used to serve static files (css, js, images, etc.) 
2) node serves all the "dynamic" stuff.

So for example, www.foo.com request comes and your css, js, and images get served thru nginx while everything else (the request for say index.html or "/") gets served through node.

3) nginx listens on port 80. 4) node listens on port 8124 (for this example only. you can change this port for your node app).

So in your /etc/nginx/sites-available/default modify your location / stanza and add the second stanza of this code block:

location / { proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8124; #this is the ip:port where your node app runs root /var/www/yoursitename; expires 30d; #uncomment this is you want to name an index file: #index index.php index.html;
access_log off; }

    location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|pdf|txt|tar|wav|bmp|rtf|js|flv|swf|html|htm)$ {
        root   /var/www/yoursitename/public;
    }
Note: I did not change the /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file. It is still the default nginx.conf from the nginx installation.

Now, restart nginx.

/etc/init.d/nginx restart

(Re)start your node app.

node /path/to/your/node/app.js

Navigate to your site and verify.

Enjoy blazing fast static files and blazing fast dynamic content.

nginx-load-balance-config.sh

upstream lb-subprint {
      ip_hash;
      server 192.241.180.249:3222 weight=10 max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s; # Reverse proxy to machine-1
      server 192.241.241.152:3222 weight=10 max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s; # Reverse proxy to machine-2
}
 
server {
      listen 80;
 
      server_name www.subprint.com subprint.com;
 
      access_log  /var/log/nginx/nginx.access.subprint.log;
      error_log  /var/log/nginx/nginx_error.subprint.log debug;
 
      location / {
        proxy_pass http://lb-subprint; # Load balance the URL location "/" to the upstream lb-subprint
        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;
      }
 
      error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
      location = /50x.html {
            root   /var/www/nginx-default;
      }
}

nginx.conf

server {
 
	listen  80;
	server_name  subprint.com;
	access_log /var/www/subprint/logs/access.log;
	error_log /var/www/subprint/logs/error.log;
	
	root   /var/www/subprint/server/public; # express serves static resources for subprint.com out of here
 
	location / {
	  proxy_pass   http://127.0.0.1:8124;
	  root   /var/www/subprint/server;
	  access_log on;
	}
	
	#serve static assets
	location ~* ^(?!\/).+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|pdf|txt|tar|wav|bmp|rtf|js|flv|swf|html|htm)$ {
	    expires max;
	    access_log off;
	}
	
	# the route for the wordpress blog
	# unfortunately the static assets (css, img, etc.) are not being pathed/served properly
	location /blog {
	
		root /var/www/localhost/public;
		index index.php;
		access_log /var/www/localhost/logs/access.log;
	  error_log /var/www/localhost/logs/error.log;
	  
	  if (!-e $request_filename) {
	    rewrite  ^/(.*)$  /index.php?q=$1  last;
	    break;
	    }
 
		if (!-f $request_filename) {
		  rewrite /blog$ /blog/index.php last;
			break;
		}	
	
	}
 
	
	# actually serves the wordpress and subsequently phpmyadmin
	location ~* (?!\/blog).+\.php$ {
	 fastcgi_pass   localhost:9000;  
	 fastcgi_index  index.php;
	 fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    /var/www/localhost/public$fastcgi_script_name;  
	 fastcgi_param PATH_INFO               $fastcgi_script_name;
	 include /usr/local/nginx/conf/fastcgi_params;
	}
	
 
	# This works fine, but ONLY with a symlink inside the /var/www/localhost/public directory pointing to /usr/share/phpmyadmin
	location /phpmyadmin {
		index index.php;
		access_log /var/www/phpmyadmin/logs/access.log;
		error_log /var/www/phpmyadmin/logs/error.log;
		alias /usr/share/phpmyadmin/;
 
		if (!-f $request_filename) {
		  rewrite /phpmyadmin$ /phpmyadmin/index.php permanent;
			break;
		}	
	}
	# opt-in to the future
	add_header "X-UA-Compatible" "IE=Edge,chrome=1";
	
}