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# Setting up nginx and node

Nginx

Any non-dynamic content should be served by Nginx since there is 
no logic needed and it is something Nginx is great at, so why have 
Node do it? The snippet below configures Nginx to listen on port 80 
and serve static files from the web root. Each request is checked 
to see if it's a POST or any other method with a JSON request type.
If either of those are true, the request is proxied on to a server
listening on port 8080, in our case the Node server.

server {  
  listen 80;  
  server_name localhost;  

  location / {  
    root   /path/to/web/root/;  

    if ($request_method ~* POST) {  
      proxy_pass        http://localhost:8080;     }  

    if ($http_accept ~* application/json) {  
      proxy_pass        http://localhost:8080;     }  
  }  
}

# Ref: http://blog.erlware.org/cowboy-and-batman-js-for-erlang-web-development/