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Diffstat (limited to 'examples/nginx.conf')
| -rw-r--r-- | examples/nginx.conf | 33 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/examples/nginx.conf b/examples/nginx.conf index d42ade8..9f245c8 100644 --- a/examples/nginx.conf +++ b/examples/nginx.conf @@ -83,9 +83,9 @@ http { } server { + # enable one of the following if you're on Linux or FreeBSD # listen 80 default deferred; # for Linux # listen 80 default accept_filter=httpready; # for FreeBSD - listen 80 default; client_max_body_size 4G; server_name _; @@ -98,7 +98,16 @@ http { # path for static files root /path/to/app/current/public; - location / { + # Prefer to serve static files directly from nginx to avoid unnecessary + # data copies from the application server. + # + # try_files directive appeared in in nginx 0.7.27 and has stabilized + # over time. Older versions of nginx (e.g. 0.6.x) requires + # "if (!-f $request_filename)" which was less efficient: + # http://bogomips.org/unicorn.git/tree/examples/nginx.conf?id=v3.3.1#n127 + try_files $uri/index.html $uri.html $uri @app; + + location @app { # an HTTP header important enough to have its own Wikipedia entry: # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Forwarded-For proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; @@ -116,18 +125,18 @@ http { proxy_redirect off; # set "proxy_buffering off" *only* for Rainbows! when doing - # Comet/long-poll stuff. It's also safe to set if you're - # using only serving fast clients with Unicorn + nginx. - # Otherwise you _want_ nginx to buffer responses to slow - # clients, really. + # Comet/long-poll/streaming. It's also safe to set if you're using + # only serving fast clients with Unicorn + nginx, but not slow + # clients. You normally want nginx to buffer responses to slow + # clients, even with Rails 3.1 streaming because otherwise a slow + # client can become a bottleneck of Unicorn. + # + # The Rack application may also set "X-Accel-Buffering (yes|no)" + # in the response headers do disable/enable buffering on a + # per-response basis. # proxy_buffering off; - # Try to serve static files from nginx, no point in making an - # *application* server like Unicorn/Rainbows! serve static files. - if (!-f $request_filename) { - proxy_pass http://app_server; - break; - } + proxy_pass http://app_server; } # Rails error pages |