Nginx.conf

nginx.conf

worker_processes 2;

user ubuntu ubuntu; # for systems with "nobody" as a group instead

# Feel free to change all paths to suite your needs here, of course
pid /etc/nginx/nginx.pid;
error_log /var/log/nginx/nginx.error.log;

events {
  worker_connections 1024; # increase if you have lots of clients
  accept_mutex off; # "on" if nginx worker_processes > 1
  # use epoll; # enable for Linux 2.6+
  # use kqueue; # enable for FreeBSD, OSX
}

http {
  # nginx will find this file in the config directory set at nginx build time
  include mime.types;

  # fallback in case we can't determine a type
  default_type application/octet-stream;

  # click tracking!
  access_log /var/log/nginx/nginx.access.log combined;

  # you generally want to serve static files with nginx since neither
  # Unicorn nor Rainbows! is optimized for it at the moment
  sendfile on;

  tcp_nopush on; # off may be better for *some* Comet/long-poll stuff
  tcp_nodelay off; # on may be better for some Comet/long-poll stuff
  client_max_body_size 2M;
  
  gzip on;
  gzip_http_version 1.0;
  gzip_proxied any;
  gzip_min_length 500;
  gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.";
#  gzip_types text/plain text/html text/xml text/css
#             text/comma-separated-values
#             text/javascript application/x-javascript
#             application/atom+xml;

  # this can be any application server, not just Unicorn/Rainbows!
  upstream app_server {
    

    # for UNIX domain socket setups:
    #server unix:/path/to/.unicorn.sock fail_timeout=0;
    
    # for TCP setups, point these to your backend servers
    
    # server 192.168.0.9:8080 fail_timeout=0;
  }

  server {
    
    keepalive_timeout 5;
    server_name app_name;	
    # path for static files
    root /path/to/app;

    
    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;
    }

    # Rails error pages
    error_page 500 502 503 504 /500.html;
    location = /500.html {
      root /path/to/the/app;
    }
  }
}