sample nginx.conf

nginx.conf

#user nginx;
worker_processes 5;

error_log /opt/local/var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /opt/local/var/run/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
    # Enumerate all the Tornado servers here
    upstream jsonic {
        server 127.0.0.1:8888;
    }
    
    access_log /opt/local/var/log/nginx/access.log;
    include /opt/local/etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type application/octet-stream;

    keepalive_timeout 65;
    proxy_read_timeout 200;
    sendfile on;
    tcp_nopush on;
    tcp_nodelay on;
    gzip on;
    gzip_min_length 1000;
    gzip_proxied any;
    autoindex on;
    gzip_types text/plain text/html text/css text/xml
               application/x-javascript application/xml
               application/atom+xml text/javascript;

    # Only retry if there was a communication error, not a timeout
    # on the Tornado server (to avoid propagating "queries of death"
    # to all frontends)
    proxy_next_upstream error;

    server {
        listen 80;
        server_name helios;
        
        location /~parente {
            alias /Users/parente/Sites;
        }
        location /jsonic/static {
            alias /Users/parente/projects/jsonic;
        }
        location /jsonic/files {
            alias /Users/parente/projects/jsonic/server/files;
        }
        location /jsonic/ {
            proxy_pass_header Server;
            proxy_set_header Host $host;
            proxy_redirect off;
            proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
            proxy_set_header X-Scheme $scheme;
            proxy_pass http://jsonic/;
        }
    }
}