Unicorn proxy with Nginx

• This article assumes you already have installed nginx, if not you can install nginx using

sudo apt-get install nginx

• Download the nginx.conf and sites-available conf from my repo

cd /etc/nginx/

wget https://raw.github.com/vickeeyz/scripts/master/nginx+unicorn/nginx/nginx.conf

cd /etc/nginx/sites-available/

wget https://raw.github.com/vickeeyz/scripts/master/nginx+unicorn/nginx/sites-available/appname

NOTE: Make sure to open and edit the conf to replace appname with your appname

Goto to nginx/sites-enabled directory and create a symlink to sites-available conf

cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/appname appname

Restart nignx

sudo service nginx restart

For Unicorn configurations

place the unicorn.rb in the app/config/

cd /home/user/sites/appname/config/

wget https://raw.github.com/vickeeyz/scripts/master/nginx+unicorn/unicorn/unicorn.rb

• create a unicorn directory in /etc

sudo mkdir /etc/unicorn 

download the app.conf file in /etc/unicorn

cd /etc/unicorn/

wget https://raw.github.com/vickeeyz/scripts/master/nginx+unicorn/unicorn/appname.conf

modify it as per your requirement

sudo nano /etc/unicorn/app.conf

download the unicorn.sh script in /etc/init.d/

cd /etc/init.d/

wget https://raw.github.com/vickeeyz/scripts/master/nginx+unicorn/unicorn/unicorn.sh

save the script with name unicorn

make the unicorn init script executable

chmod +x /etc/init.d/unicorn

update-rc.d unicorn defaults

Now start the unicorn service

sudo service unicorn restart