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daronco edited this page Sep 26, 2014 · 2 revisions

→ Note: This is kept here for internal documentation only, but it is not recommended to be used and is probably outdated!

This is a draft with tips on how to serve Mconf-Web using Thin and Nginx. If you have a better solution of if you found any errors please contact us.

How To

Add thin to the Mconf-Web Gemfile:

gem 'thin'

Install it:

bundle install

Test if Thin is ok:

bundle exec thin start

Create a config file to run Thin (replace <MCONF_WEB_PATH> with the path to your application):

thin config -C mconf-web.yml -c <MCONF_WEB_PATH> --servers 3 -e production -p 3000

Create a virtual host for Mconf-Web in Nginx:

sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/mconf-web

Put this content in this file (replace <YOUR_IP> and <MCONF_WEB_PATH> with real values):

upstream thin {
    server 127.0.0.1:3000;
    server 127.0.0.1:3001;
    server 127.0.0.1:3002;
}

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name <YOUR_IP>;

    access_log <MCONF_WEB_PATH>/log/access.log;
    error_log <MCONF_WEB_PATH>/log/error.log;

    root   <MCONF_WEB_PATH>/public/;
    index  index.html;

    location / {
        proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP  $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_redirect off;

        if (-f $request_filename/index.html) {
            rewrite (.*) $1/index.html break;
        }

        if (-f $request_filename.html) {
            rewrite (.*) $1.html break;
        }

        if (!-f $request_filename) {
            proxy_pass http://thin;
            break;
        }
    }
}

Enable the virtual host:

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/mconf-web /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/mconf-web

To serve the application you need to run both Thin and Nginx:

thin start -C mconf-web.yml
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart

More resources

This is the technical documentation for Mconf-Web, a component of Mconf. Read more about the project and try it out at mconf.org.

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