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and is good at proxying connections to a back-end service like mongrel. Listing 10
shows how to install nginx.
Listing 10. Installing nginx
# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
...
# yum install nginx
...
Running Transaction
Installing : nginx [1/1]
Installed: nginx.i386 0:0.6.39-4.el5
Complete!
# chkconfig nginx on
Listing 11 installs the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux® (EPEL) repository, then
installs nginx and makes sure it will come up on startup.
Listing 11. An nginx configuration for a rails application
# Two mongrels, balanced based on least connections
upstream mongrel-payroll {
fair;
server 127.0.0.1:8100;
server 127.0.0.1:8101;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name
app.smallpayroll.ca;
root /home/payroll/current/public;
gzip_static on;
access_log /var/log/nginx/app.smallpayroll.ca_log main;
error_page 404 /404.html;
location / {
# Because we're proxying, set some environment variables indicating this
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect false;
proxy_max_temp_file_size 0;
# Serve static files out of Root (eg public)
if (-f $request_filename) {
break;
}
# Handle page cached actions by looking for the appropriately named file
if (-f $request_filename.html) {
rewrite (.*) $1.html;
break;
}
# Send all other requests to mongrel
if (!-f $request_filename) {
proxy_pass http://mongrel-payroll;
break;
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