nginx and rails configuration question

[Sean Allen]

On Apr 7, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Cathal wrote:
> I found the following post:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.nginx.english/2283 which is  
> very similar
> to what I am attempting. My problem is that my nginx can't resolve  
> static files
> prefixed with the path matched in the location directive. All static  
> file
> requests are then proxied to the rails app. which cannot resolve  
> them either.
> Can anybody provide some guidance?
>
> regards,

you just want to remove the /app2 /app1 etc from static file checks?

am i reading all that correctly?

if yes, this was our ugly solution to the fact that we write tracking  
info into the url
( not rails but same scenario )
so that

/dir/file.html would appear as url as /s-SOMETHINGHERE/dir/file.html

set $dynamic 0;
set $real_file $request_filename;

if ( $uri ~* ^(/s-[^/]*/)(.*)$ )
{
   set $real_file $document_root/$2;
   set $has_lid 1;
}

# IS IT DYNAMIC?
if ( !-e $real_file )
{
   set $dynamic 1;
}

# FILE DOESNT EXIST SO WE HAND OFF
if ( $dynamic )
{
    # DO YOU DYNAMIC HANDLING HERE
}

# THIS REWRITES OUT THE EXTRA STUFF FOR STATIC HANDLING

if ( $has_lid )
{
   rewrite ^(/s-[^/]*/)(.*)$ /$2;
}

This may not be the best way to do it. But it works.

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