How to get Passenger to install nginx with SSL support:
1. change to the /tmp directory
cd /tmp
2. download the nginx source
wget http://sysoev.ru/nginx/nginx-0.6.36.tar.gz
3. unpack it
tar zxf nginx-0.6.36.tar.gz
4. install the passenger gem
sudo gem install passenger
5. run the passenger nginx module install
passenger-install-nginx-module
6. When asked: ‘Do you want this installer to download, compile and install Nginx for you?’, answer
2
7. When asked: ‘Where is your Nginx source code located?’, answer
/tmp/nginx-0.6.36
8. When asked: ‘Where do you want to install Nginx to?’, answer
/opt/nginx
9. When asked about: ‘Extra arguments to pass to configure script:’, answer
--with-http_ssl_module
10. When asked to ‘Confirm configure flags’, answer
yes
That’s it. Good luck!
Do you have a working config for SSL using Passenger + nginx? I added the proxy_set_header directives too (including proxy_set_header X-FORWARDED_PROTO https;) and I’m still not getting any love. I get “Redirect Loop” in Firefox. If you have a working config, would you mind sharing?
Jimmy, I’m at Railsconf and spoke with the Phusion guys regarding this. Ninh hadn’t seen the problem but wasn’t surprised due to the amount of reverse-engineering that they had to do for the nginx passenger module. I’ll post any updates I get from them.
it’s all good now! turns out there was a bug in Passenger 2.2.1 – update to Passenger 2.2.2 and everything works great!
I get 403 errors for any server config with a location block that includes:
proxy_set_header X-FORWARDED_PROTO https;
I am using Passenger 2.2.2 with Nginx. If I remove the location block, nginx serves the app fine on the port specified, but if I do include the block, it’s a 403 error.
If anyone can help with this, I would really appreciate it!