Question

I’m very new in nginx server configuration. I have a problem serving files under subdirectories on public directory.

Example, files under; rails_app/public/uploads/client/2/image/7/ directory or rails_app/public/picture/ directory are not served
but i have no problems with: rails_app/public/webcam.swf

is like somehow subdirectories are not serve.

my production.rb file

  # Disable Rails's static asset server (Apache or nginx will already do this)
  config.serve_static_assets = false

only if i set serve_static_assets to true i have no problems

my nginx configuration:

upstream thin {
  server '127.0.0.1:3000';
  server '127.0.0.1:3001';
  server '127.0.0.1:3002';
  server '127.0.0.1:3003';
  server '127.0.0.1:3004';
}

server {
  listen 80 default deferred;
  # server_name example.com;
  root /home/user/appname/public;

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

  location / {
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    proxy_redirect off;
    proxy_pass http://thin;
  }
  error_page 500 502 503 504 /500.html;
  client_max_body_size 4G;
  keepalive_timeout 10;
}

can you help me with this configuration?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I think the issue is that your location / block is catching your dynamic requests as well as your non-asset static requests. Try this config (note the try_files line):

server {
  listen 80 default deferred;
  # server_name example.com;
  root /home/user/appname/public;
  try_files $uri @app;

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

  location @app {
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    proxy_redirect off;
    proxy_pass http://thin;
  }
  error_page 500 502 503 504 /500.html;
  client_max_body_size 4G;
  keepalive_timeout 10;
}