How setup proxy to glue couchDB to Rails?

[Peter Leonov]

Hi Audrey,

On 05.04.2010, at 7:07, Audrey Lee <audrey.lee.is.me at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello nginx people,
>
> Is it possible to use nginx to "glue" 2 types of servers into one?
>
> I have a rails server running here:
>  http://localhost:3000/rails/
>
> And I have a couchDB server running here:
>  http://localhost:5984/
>
> I'd like to configure nginx so that it listens on 8080
>
> I want any request directed at:
>  http://localhost:8080/rails/
> to be forwarded to
>  http://localhost:3000/rails/
> And I want all other requests to be forwarded to
>  http://localhost:5984/
>
> Have any of you done something like this?
Yes. A lot and every day ;)

You should check this:
http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpProxyModule
google: proxy_pass site:nginx.org

>
> Is nginx well suited for this or should I be learning about a true
> proxy like squid or varnish?
Yes nginx is a fully powered reverse proxy. IMHO the best available  
today.

Peter.