Ubuntu play nginx configuration

myapp.conf

# Upstart file to make play app start when server starts

description "PlayFramework 2"
author "Leon Radley <[email protected]>"
version "1.0"

env USER=myuser
env GROUP=mygroup
env HOME=/home/myuser/app

env PORT=9000
env ADDRESS=127.0.0.1
env CONFIG=production.conf
env SBTMEM=256
env EXTRA="-Xms512M -Xmx1024m -server"
env RUNEVOLUTIONS=true

start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [06]

respawn
respawn limit 10 5
expect daemon

# If you want the upstart script to build play with sbt you can uncomment this
# Though you will need sbt on the server and it takes alot of memory
#pre-start script
#    chdir $HOME
#    sbt clean compile stage -mem $SBTMEM
#end script

pre-start script
        #mkdir -p ${LOGDIR}
        rm -f ${HOME}/RUNNING_PID
end script

# use --no-close when ubuntu 12.10 is available
exec start-stop-daemon --pidfile ${HOME}/RUNNING_PID --chuid $USER:$GROUP --exec ${HOME}/start --background --start -- "$EXTRA -Dconfig.resource=$CONFIG -Dhttp.port=$PORT -Dhttp.address=$ADDRESS -DapplyEvolutions.default=$RUNEVOLUTIONS -DapplyDownEvolutions.default=$RUNEVOLUTIONS"

www-server-com.conf

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name www.myapp.com;

        root /home/myuser/app;

        include /etc/nginx/proxy_params;

        location / {
                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9000;
        }

        location = /favicon.ico { log_not_found off; access_log off; }
        location = /robots.txt  { log_not_found off; access_log off; }
}

to run play without nginx iptables can be usedto port forward port 9000 to 80

/sbin/iptables -t nat -F 
/sbin/iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -d localhost -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 9000 
/sbin/iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 9000