nginxfastcgi

nginx + fastcgi ruby listeners

Local FastCGI listeners (with UNIX sockets)

Good for production

http {
...
    upstream rails {
        server unix:/tmp/rails1.sock;
        server unix:/tmp/rails2.sock;
        server unix:/tmp/rails3.sock;
        server unix:/tmp/rails4.sock;
    }
...

    server {
        listen       8080;
        server_name  localhost;
        root /var/www/railsapp/public/;

        access_log off;

        location / {
              include  /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
              fastcgi_pass   rails;
              fastcgi_index  index.html;
              fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/railsapp/public/$fastcgi_script_name;
       }
    }
}

And the fastcgi.conf file referenced above

# /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf
fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE       $content_type;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH     $content_length;

fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI       $document_uri;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      $document_root;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;

fastcgi_param  GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx;

fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;
# PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect
fastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;

Remote FastCGI listener

Replace the line ‘fastcgi_pass rails;’ in the config above with:

fastcgi_pass   {some_remote_machine}:9000;
# for example fastcgi_pass 192.168.0.10:9000;

See also

• Cherokee, PHP and nginx