Question

I’m using Nginx to reverse proxy my Unicorn process for a Rails app that I have. I would like to be able to get a progress status (similar to apache-upload-progress-module) for file uploads. I tried to use NginxHttpUploadProgressModule but /progress still routes to the Rails app so that doesn’t work. I followed the steps in NginxHttpUploadProgressModule so I’m really at a stopping point here.

Answer 1

Without seeing the exact configuration you implemented, nor debug log, it is difficult to understand what can be wrong.

I suggest you:

1. compile nginx with the –with-debug option and activate debug log with the error_log directive.
2. check the debug log for the /progress request and look the order of the tested locations.

It is well possible you are using try_files and your /progress location doesn’t trigger because it is located after your catch all location. You can try to put the /progress location at the top of your server {} directive