Rails/Nginx not serving JS and CSS
capistrano, linode, nginx, ruby-on-rails, unicorn
Solution
`location ^~ /assets/` should be `location ~ ^/assets/`.
The former is does not match /assets/, the latter is matches a pattern that starts with /assets/
Update your nginx config to get caching and pre-gzipped file serving working again.
Problem
I deployed a Rails 3.2.8 application via Capistrano, with asset pipeline enabled, to my Linode server. It is running nginx + unicorn. When I visit my application, the minimised JS and CSS are not being served, although the assets are present in `<RAILS_DIR>/public/assets`. ``` $ tree assets assets |-- application-66e477d6fd8cf088e8be44affeead089.css |-- application-66e477d6fd8cf088e8be44affeead089.css.gz |-- application-7d3ead38a0b5e276a97d48e52044ac31.js |-- application-7d3ead38a0b5e276a97d48e52044ac31.js.gz ``` In my application, I can see those exact files not being found: This is my nginx configuration: ``` server { listen 80 default deferred; server_name me.example.com; root /home/kennym/apps/app/current/public; location ^~ /assets/ { add_header Last-Modified ""; add_header ETag ""; gzip_static on; expires max; add_header Cache-Control public; } try_files $uri/index.html $uri @unicorn; location @unicorn { proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header Host $http_host; proxy_redirect off; proxy_pass http://unicorn; } error_page 500 502 503 504 /500.html; client_max_body_size 4G; keepalive_timeout 10; } ``` Can you guess what is wrong?