Quick notes on installing and configuring nginx and running with existing mongrel and Merb app on my MacBookPro.
1) Download and install PCRE (if needed)
http://www.pcre.org/
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-7.8.tar.gz
$ ./configure
$ ./make
$ ./make install
2) Download and install nginx:
http://nginx.net/
The latest stable version is nginx-0.6.32, the change log.
http://sysoev.ru/nginx/nginx-0.6.32.tar.gz
$ ./configure
$ ./make
$ ./make install
# Edit nginx.conf file (/usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf)
# Note - based on Ezra's blog post (see notes below)
user nobody;
worker_processes 2;
error_log logs/error.log notice;
pid logs/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include mime.types;
#include conf/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
# no sendfile on OSX uncomment
#this if your on linux or bsd
#sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
tcp_nodelay on;
upstream mongrel {
server 127.0.0.1:4000;
server 127.0.0.1:4001;
server 127.0.0.1:4002;
}
gzip on;
gzip_min_length 1100;
gzip_buffers 4 8k;
gzip_types text/plain;
server {
listen 80;
#server_name localhost;
root /Users/dsparlingimbp/git/dougsparlingdotcom/public;
access_log off;
rewrite_log on;
location ~ ^/$ {
if (-f /index.html){
rewrite (.*) /index.html last;
}
proxy_pass http://mongrel;
}
location / {
if (!-f $request_filename.html) {
proxy_pass http://mongrel;
}
rewrite (.*) $1.html last;
}
location ~ .html {
root /Users/dsparlingimbp/git/dougsparlingdotcom/public;
}
location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js|mov)$ {
root /Users/dsparlingimbp/git/dougsparlingdotcom/public;
}
location / {
proxy_pass http://mongrel;
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;
}
}
}
4) Commands for starting and stopping nginx
start: sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
stop: sudo kill `cat /usr/local/nginx/logs/nginx.pid`
5) Start Mongrel cluster (I'm using 3 Mongrels):
$ merb -c 3
or
$ merb -p 4000 -c 3
6) Resources
http://brainspl.at/articles/2006/08/23/nginx-my-new-favorite-front-end-for-mongrel-cluster
http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/5/13/ubuntu-hardy-installing-nginx-from-source
http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/5/13/ubuntu-hardy-adding-an-nginx-init-script
http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/4/25/ubuntu-hardy-setup-page-1
http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/4/25/ubuntu-hardy-setup-page-2
http://forum.slicehost.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=2179
http://merb.rubyforge.org/files/README.html
