Passenger+nginx: Hosting a Rails application in a subdirectory

nginx, passenger, ruby-on-rails, subdirectory

Solution

Hmmm...all seems to have worked fine for me. Just tried it.

Are you sure you followed the Nginx instructions instead of the Apache instructions?

Make sure you do the soft link and change the 'root' application...the instructions say to make it the absolute path minus the 'public' part:

http { ...

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name g.local;
    root /home/bernie/development/test;  <- forgot to change this the first time I tried
    passenger_enabled on;   
    passenger_base_uri /rails; 
}

...

}

Here's an image of the end result...no route modifications needed:

alt text http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/8898/32380822.png

Here are the Nginx instructions:

http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Nginx.html#deploying_rails_to_sub_uri

Problem

I'm trying to deploy an application in a subdirectory `/a` under `www.myserver.com`, following the steps in the Passenger docs here: http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide.html#deploying_rails_to_sub_uri This seems to work, but the Rails routes are now all expecting the additional subdirectory `/a`, such that trying to access the root `www.myserver.com/a` gives me a RoutingError. I've tried setting `relative_url_root`, but that changes nothing. Do I need to add the prefix `/a` to every route in my routes file?

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