Nginx virtualhost example for Passenger / Rails

For those of us coming from the Apache world, getting a working Nginx virtualhost configured for Rails can be quite the headache. It's actually pretty simple once you know what's going on. After installing nginx and passenger-phusion for nginx, all you need is the following (Note: the location portion of the config is for setting resource expiration to 1 month. You may need to adjust this based on your needs):

	server {
	listen 80;
	listen [::]:80;
	server_name your_domain.com www.your_domain.com;
	root /var/www/html/app_name/public;
	passenger_enabled on;
	passenger_app_env production;
	location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
	expires 744h;
	log_not_found off;
	add_header Pragma public;
	add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
	}
	}

view raw default hosted with ❤ by GitHub

	server {
	listen 443 ssl;
	listen [::]:443 ssl;
	server_name your_domain.com www.your_domain.com;
	root /var/www/html/app_name/public;
	passenger_enabled on;
	passenger_app_env production;
	ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/your_domain.com/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
	ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/your_domain.com/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
	include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
	location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
	expires 744h;
	log_not_found off;
	add_header Pragma public;
	add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
	}
	}

view raw ssl hosted with ❤ by GitHub