rails - nginx + puma - static assets not being served by nginx from the tutorial link provided

nginx, puma, ruby-on-rails

Solution

I'm posting for future readers. I encounter this error when I change my hosting provider. My standard nginx conf for assets stop working, I have to change it for:

location ~ ^assets/ 
    {
        gzip_static on;
        expires max;
        add_header Cache-Control public;
    }

Removing the / before /assets did the trick, don't know why. ps: location is in the server block

Problem

I am using Ubuntu. Here is the tutorial Nginx config I am using: ``` upstream my_app { server unix:///home/uname/railsproject/my_app.sock; } server { listen 88; #(I used exact 88 when I am testing now) server_name localhost; # I used exact localhost when I am testing this root /home/uname/railsproject/public; # I assume your app is located at that location location / { proxy_pass http://my_app; # match the name of upstream directive which is defined above proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; } location ~* ^/assets/ { # Per RFC2616 - 1 year maximum expiry expires 1y; add_header Cache-Control public; # Some browsers still send conditional-GET requests if there's a # Last-Modified header or an ETag header even if they haven't # reached the expiry date sent in the Expires header. add_header Last-Modified ""; add_header ETag ""; break; } ``` } Puma command ``` RAILS_ENV=production puma -e production -b unix:///home/uname/railsproject/my_app.sock -p 8000 ``` In the address bar, I am typing ``` http://localhost/ ``` and then website opening but static assets not working. Of course, I ran ``` RAILS_ENV=production rake assets:precompile ``` and assets are available in public/assets folder I also tried placing `m.txt` file in assets directory and accessing ``` http://localhost/assets/m.txt ``` but didn't work. I also tried this command: ``` sudo chown -R www-data:www-data public/ ``` but this didn't help.

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