NGINX Setup (Rails App in a subdirectory)

Question

I'm using NGINX with Passenger to run a rails application on an Ubuntu server.

However, I'd like to have the rails app served from www.mydomain.com/store , and have a wordpress install served from www.mydomain.com.

How would one go about setting up the nginx.conf?

Answer 1

From the official manual:

To do this, make a symlink from your Ruby on Rails application’s public folder to a directory in the document root. For example:

ln -s /webapps/mycook/public /websites/phusion/rails

Next, set passenger_enabled on and add a passenger_base_uri option to the server block:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name www.phusion.nl;
    root /websites/phusion;
    passenger_enabled on;        # <--- These lines have
    passenger_base_uri /rails;   # <--- been added.
}