Installing Nginx with Passenger on Snow Leopard Using MacPorts
Posted by Christopher Rigor on December 17, 2009
Filed Under Web Development
Install MacPorts if you don’t have it.
Download and install the Portfile
git clone git://github.com:crigor/admoolabs-ports.git ports cd ports/nginx-0.7.64-passenger-2.2.8 sudo port -v install
You need to have ruby installed to compile passenger. In case you don’t have ruby, you can also get it from macports.
sudo port -v install ruby
If you have an older version of nginx installed using macports, it might move nginx.conf to nginx.conf.altered. Copy it back to nginx.conf if you need it. You can also use this nginx.conf.
Edit /opt/local/etc/nginx.conf and add the following lines inside http {}
passenger_root /opt/local/lib/passenger; passenger_ruby /opt/local/bin/ruby;
Change the ruby path if you’re not using ruby from macports.
For each rails app, you need to add the following, also inside http {}
server {
server_name labs.local;
root /Users/crigor/admoolabs/labs/public;
access_log /opt/local/var/log/nginx/labs.local.access.log;
error_log /opt/local/var/log/nginx/labs.local.error.log;
passenger_enabled on;
rails_env development;
}
Check if your syntax is correct.
sudo /opt/local/sbin/nginx -t
If it is, you’ll see
the configuration file /opt/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok configuration file /opt/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful
Start nginx with
sudo /opt/local/sbin/nginx
You won’t get any output if it starts correctly. Check if nginx is running
ps -e | grep nginx -i (You should see something like these lines) nginx: master process /opt/local/sbin/nginx nginx: worker process PassengerNginxHelperServer /opt/local/lib/passenger /opt/local/bin/ruby 3 4 0 6 0 300 1 nobody 4294967294 4294967294 /tmp/passenger.10755
MacPorts added a startup item which is disabled by default. To start it,
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.nginx.plist
You can stop nginx with
sudo launchctl stop org.macports.nginx
but it would just be started right away. If you want it to remain stopped, use
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.nginx.plist
When you make changes to the config, reload the config with
sudo /opt/local/sbin/nginx -s reload
Check the other nginx options using
/opt/local/sbin/nginx -h
One more thing…
When you add a rails or rack app, you need to specify a different server_name. You need to add it to /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost labs.local
Don’t you think it would be great if you can handle this automatically? Me too. Stay tuned for more. This shouldn’t be a pane pain. 