Rails 3 shows 404 error instead of index.html (nginx + unicorn)
- by Miko
I have an index.html in public/ that should be loading by default but instead I get a 404 error when I try to access http://example.com/
The page you were looking for doesn't exist.
You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved.
This has something to do with nginx and unicorn which I am using to power Rails 3
When take unicorn out of the nginx configuration file, the problem goes away and index.html loads just fine.
Here is my nginx configuration file:
upstream unicorn {
server unix:/tmp/.sock fail_timeout=0;
}
server {
server_name example.com;
root /www/example.com/current/public;
index index.html;
keepalive_timeout 5;
location / {
try_files $uri @unicorn;
}
location @unicorn {
proxy_pass http://unicorn;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_redirect off;
}
}
My config/routes.rb is pretty much empty:
Advertise::Application.routes.draw do |map|
resources :users
end
The index.html file is located in public/index.html and it loads fine if I request it directly: http://example.com/index.html
To reiterate, when I remove all references to unicorn from the nginx conf, index.html loads without any problems, I have a hard time understanding why this occurs because nginx should be trying to load that file on its own by default.
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Here is the error stack from production.log:
Started GET "/" for 68.107.80.21 at 2010-08-08 12:06:29 -0700
Processing by HomeController#index as HTML
Completed in 1ms
ActionView::MissingTemplate (Missing template home/index with {:handlers=>[:erb, :rjs, :builder, :rhtml, :rxml, :haml], :formats=>[:html], :locale=>[:en, :en]} in view paths
"/www/example.com/releases/20100808170224/app/views",
"/www/example.com/releases/20100808170224/vendor/plugins/paperclip/app/views",
"/www/example.com/releases/20100808170224/vendor/plugins/haml/app/views"):
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/actionpack-3.0.0.beta4/lib/action_view/paths.rb:14:in `find'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/actionpack-3.0.0.beta4/lib/action_view/lookup_context.rb:79:in `find'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/actionpack-3.0.0.beta4/lib/action_view/base.rb:186:in `find_template'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/actionpack-3.0.0.beta4/lib/action_view/render/rendering.rb:45:in `_determine_template'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/actionpack-3.0.0.beta4/lib/action_view/render/rendering.rb:23:in `render'
/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-rc2/gems/haml-3.0.15/lib/haml/helpers/action_view_mods.rb:13:in `render_with_haml'
etc...
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nginx error log for this virtualhost comes up empty:
2010/08/08 12:40:22 [info] 3118#0: *1 client 68.107.80.21 closed keepalive connection
My guess is unicorn is intercepting the request to index.html before nginx gets to process it.
