user mauricio users; #this should be the username and the main group of the user that's going to deploy the application worker_processes 4; error_log logs/error.log; pid logs/nginx.pid; events { worker_connections 1024; } http { passenger_root /opt/ruby-enterprise/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2; passenger_ruby /opt/ruby-enterprise/bin/ruby; include mime.types; default_type application/octet-stream; log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] $request ' '"$status" $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" ' '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"'; access_log logs/access.log main; sendfile on; tcp_nopush on; #keepalive_timeout 0; keepalive_timeout 65; gzip on; server { listen 80; server_name _; #put your host or ip here, "_" means ANYTHING root /home/mauricio/NetBeansProjects/sample_social_network/public; #this should be pointing to your application PUBLIC directory passenger_enabled on; # this is required rails_env production; # the Rails environment that your application is going to run rails_spawn_method smart; # this spawn method is the one that uses less memory } }