I set up a home server with ubuntu and ngingx and I can serve static files. Now I want to test some clojure files but I am not clear about how to do this. For php this seems very easy, for instance in this tutorial he adds a location for php files. Is that all I need to do, just indicate where Clojure files are in the config file?
I have the Web Development with Clojure by Dmitry Sotnikov and he talks about deployment but not specifically about nginx.
Can you point me in the right direction where I can find documentation about this?
Consider next setup:
nginx -> ring server (jetty)
You need to start lein ring server
(using lein-ring plugin) on some port (say 8080). Nginx will listen at 80 port and forward requests to 8080.
Here is a sample nginx config:
upstream ring {
server 127.0.0.1:8080 fail_timeout=0;
}
server {
root <path-to-public-dir>;
# Make site accessible from http://localhost/
server_name localhost;
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file
try_files $uri $uri/ @ring;
}
location @ring {
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_buffering off;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_pass http://ring;
}
location ~ ^/(assets|images|javascripts|stylesheets|swfs|system)/ {
expires max;
add_header Cache-Control public;
}
}
Change path-to-public-dir to directory where your static files reside (resources/public).
Nginx will server static files (if file found) and forward other requests to ring server.
Please try Nginx-Clojure module. You can run clojure Ring handlers with Nginx without any Java Web Server, eg. Jetty.
Further more it 's very fast. The benchmarks can be found HERE.