Installing passenger+nginx from FreeBSD ports tree

I found old article explaining how to install passenger with nginx on FreeBSD.  Since 9 of January 2010 after this commit it is very simply.

The first step is install nginx with passenger support module. You may choose stable or development version of nginx.


# cd /usr/ports/www/nginx && make config


Step down, find and choose PASSENGER_MODULE option for third-party passenger module,
press OK button and type


# make build install clean


Next step is install www/rubygem-passenger for nginx.


# cd /usr/ports/www/rubygem-passenger && make config

unselect APACHEPORT, then step down and select NGINXPORT.


# make build install clean

Thats all, installation complete.

Add following line to you /etc/rc.conf:

nginx_enable="YES"


Write following configuration file for nginx, i.e. nginx.conf and put it into /usr/local/etc/nginx directory.




worker_process 1;


events {
    worker_connections 1024;
}


http {
    include          mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;


    sendfile         on;


    passenger_root  /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9/gems/passenger-3.0.11;
    passenger_ruby  /usr/local/bin/ruby;
    passenger_default_user www;


    server {
        listen      127.0.0.1:80;
        server_name localhost;


        root /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9/gems/passenger-3.0.11/test/stub/rack/public;
        passenger_enabled on;
        passenger_use_global_queue on;
    }
}


Save configuration file and start nginx.


# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nginx start


Here is simple request and the answer from your RoR server:

$ telnet 127.0.0.1 80
GET / HTTP/1.0


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: close
Status: 200
X-Powered-By: Phusion Passenger (mod_rails/mod_rack) 3.0.11
Server: nginx/1.0.10 + Phusion Passenger 3.0.11 (mod_rails/mod_rack)


hello worldConnection close by foreign host.



Also, after successfull start nginx and first request you may find following porcesses.

% ps auxww | grep -i passenger
root       72784   0,0  0,1  28112   2932  ??  Is   12:25      0:00,01 PassengerWatchdog
root       72786   0,0  0,1  51704   5224  ??  I    12:25      0:00,04 PassengerHelperAgent
root       72790   0,0  0,2  51924   9764  ??  I    12:25      0:00,06 ruby: Passenger spawn server (ruby)
nobody     72791   0,0  0,1  32476   4500  ??  I    12:25      0:00,01 PassengerLoggingAgent
www        72807   0,0  0,3  56040  11124  ??  I    12:26      0:00,03 ruby: Passenger ApplicationSpawner: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9/gems/passenger-3.0.11/test/stub/rack (ruby)
www        72809   0,0  0,3  56064  11180  ??  I    12:26      0:00,00 ruby: Rack: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9/gems/passenger-3.0.11/test/stub/rack (ruby)