#293 Nginx & Unicorn pro
Oct 24, 2011 | 19 minutes | Tools, Production
Nginx and Unicorn make a killer-combo for hosting a Rails application in production. Learn how to configure each in a Vagrant virtual machine in this episode.
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Resources
- Nginx Wiki
- Nginx TextMate Bundle
- Unicorn
- Unicorn Example Configs
- Unicorn on GitHub
- Everything You Need to Know About Unicorn
- I Like Unicorn Because It's Unix
Gemfile
gem 'unicorn'
Vagrantfile
config.vm.forward_port "http", 80, 8080
bash
# setup nginx sudo apt-get install nginx nginx -h cat /etc/init.d/nginx /etc/init.d/nginx -h sudo service nginx start cd /etc/nginx less nginx.conf cd sites-enabled sudo rm default sudo ln -s /vagrant/config/nginx.conf todo sudo service nginx restart # setup unicorn cd /vagrant bundle install bundle exec unicorn -c config/unicorn.rb -D chmod +x config/unicorn_init.sh sudo ln -s /vagrant/config/unicorn_init.sh /etc/init.d/unicorn bundle install --binstubs sudo service unicorn restart # rbenv binstubs fix rbenv local 1.9.2-p290 sed -i 's/env ruby/env ruby-local-exec/' bin/*
config/nginx.conf
upstream unicorn {
server unix:/tmp/unicorn.todo.sock fail_timeout=0;
}
server {
listen 80 default deferred;
# server_name example.com;
root /vagrant/public;
try_files $uri/index.html $uri @unicorn;
location @unicorn {
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_pass http://unicorn;
}
error_page 500 502 503 504 /500.html;
client_max_body_size 4G;
keepalive_timeout 10;
}
config/unicorn.rb
working_directory "/vagrant" pid "/vagrant/tmp/pids/unicorn.pid" stderr_path "/vagrant/log/unicorn.log" stdout_path "/vagrant/log/unicorn.log" listen "/tmp/unicorn.todo.sock" worker_processes 2 timeout 30
config/unicorn_init.sh
#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Example init script, this can be used with nginx, too,
# since nginx and unicorn accept the same signals
# Feel free to change any of the following variables for your app:
TIMEOUT=${TIMEOUT-60}
APP_ROOT=/vagrant
PID=$APP_ROOT/tmp/pids/unicorn.pid
CMD="$APP_ROOT/bin/unicorn -D -c $APP_ROOT/config/unicorn.rb -E production"
action="$1"
set -u
old_pid="$PID.oldbin"
cd $APP_ROOT || exit 1
sig () {
test -s "$PID" && kill -$1 `cat $PID`
}
oldsig () {
test -s $old_pid && kill -$1 `cat $old_pid`
}
case $action in
start)
sig 0 && echo >&2 "Already running" && exit 0
su -c "$CMD" - vagrant
;;
stop)
sig QUIT && exit 0
echo >&2 "Not running"
;;
force-stop)
sig TERM && exit 0
echo >&2 "Not running"
;;
restart|reload)
sig HUP && echo reloaded OK && exit 0
echo >&2 "Couldn't reload, starting '$CMD' instead"
su -c "$CMD" - vagrant
;;
upgrade)
if sig USR2 && sleep 2 && sig 0 && oldsig QUIT
then
n=$TIMEOUT
while test -s $old_pid && test $n -ge 0
do
printf '.' && sleep 1 && n=$(( $n - 1 ))
done
echo
if test $n -lt 0 && test -s $old_pid
then
echo >&2 "$old_pid still exists after $TIMEOUT seconds"
exit 1
fi
exit 0
fi
echo >&2 "Couldn't upgrade, starting '$CMD' instead"
su -c "$CMD" - vagrant
;;
reopen-logs)
sig USR1
;;
*)
echo >&2 "Usage: $0 <start|stop|restart|upgrade|force-stop|reopen-logs>"
exit 1
;;
esac

