Nginx gives 404 error for rails app except the root

Question

I have an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS VPS server that serves a static website with Nginx. I would like to set up a rails application that is accesible from the subfolder 'foo'. I use Passenger for serving the rails app

That is how I configured Nginx:

worker_processes 1; events { worker_connections 1024; } http { passenger_root /home/akarki/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429/gems/passenger-4.0.5; passenger_ruby /home/akarki/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.9.3-p429/ruby; server_names_hash_bucket_size 64; include mime.types; default_type application/octet-stream; sendfile on; keepalive_timeout 65; gzip on; gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)"; gzip_types text/plain application/xml text/css text/js text/xml application/x-javascript text/javascript application/json application/xml+rss; charset UTF-8; error_log /opt/nginx/logs/file.log warn; server { listen 80; server_name www.domain.com; return 301 $scheme://domain.com$request_uri; } server { listen 80; server_name domain.com; index index.html index.htm; root /srv/www/domain.com; passenger_enabled on; passenger_base_uri /foo; try_files $uri.htm $uri.html $uri/ =404; location = / { rewrite ^ /de permanent; } # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html; location = /50x.html { root html; } } } 

The static website works as expected but the only URL of the rails app that is accessible is the root under 'http://domain.com/foo'

Any other url gives a 404 error.

Do you have any suggestion how to fix this?

Answer 1

The best solution I could find to this after searching a lot was to re-install and configure nginx with phusion passenger

sudo apt-get purge nginx nginx-common nginx-full sudo apt-get install nginx sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf # uncomment 'passenger_root' & 'passenger_ruby' paths accordingly sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default # replace with: server { listen 80 default_server; listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on; server_name mydomain.com; passenger_enabled on; rails_env production; root /home/deploy/myapp/current/public; # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html; location = /50x.html { root html; } } sudo service nginx restart