tomkersten · October 28, 2011 20:36 · Oct 28, 2011
diff --git a/somehost.conf b/somehost.conf
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+upstream your-app {
+  # fail_timeout=0 means we always retry an upstream even if it failed
+  # to return a good HTTP response (in case the Unicorn master nukes a
+  # single worker for timing out).
+  server unix:/tmp/your_app.socket fail_timeout=0;
+}
+
+server {
+  listen       80;
+
+  server_name yourdomain.com;
+  root /some/directory/for/rails/app/public;
+  access_log /var/log/nginx/yourapp-access.log;
+  error_log /var/log/nginx/yourapp-error.log;
+  rewrite_log on;
+
+  location / {
+    # For CORS
+    if ($request_method = OPTIONS ) {
+      add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin "http://localhost"; # <- needs to be updated
+      add_header Access-Control-Allow-Methods "GET, OPTIONS";
+      add_header Access-Control-Allow-Headers "Authorization";   # <- You may not need this...it's for Basic Auth
+      add_header Access-Control-Allow-Credentials "true";        # <- Basic Auth stuff, again
+      add_header Content-Length 0;
+      add_header Content-Type text/plain;
+      return 200;
+    }
+
+    proxy_pass http://your-app;
+    proxy_redirect     off;
+
+    proxy_set_header   Host             $host;
+    proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
+    proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For  $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
+
+    client_max_body_size       10m;
+    client_body_buffer_size    128k;
+
+    proxy_connect_timeout      90;
+    proxy_send_timeout         90;
+    proxy_read_timeout         90;
+
+    proxy_buffer_size          4k;
+    proxy_buffers              4 32k;
+    proxy_busy_buffers_size    64k;
+    proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k;
+
+    index  index.html index.htm;
+  }
+
+  # if the request is for a static resource, nginx should serve it directly
+  # and add a far future expires header to it, making the browser
+  # cache the resource and navigate faster over the website
+  location ~ ^/(images|javascripts|stylesheets|system)/  {
+    root /some/directory/for/rails/app/public;
+    expires max;
+    break;
+  }
+
+  #error_page  404              /404.html;
+
+  # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
+  #
+  error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
+}