Requirements:

1. XCODE you can download xcode from http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/index.html

2. OSX 10.4, 10.5 or 10.6

Procedures:

1. Install Passenger

$ sudo gem install passenger

now check where is passenger installed:

$ passenger-config --root

in my case is: /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5

2. Install nginx

If you have nginx from macports, deactivate it in case of conflicts.

You can activate anytime later

$ sudo port deactivate nginx

$ wget http://sysoev.ru/nginx/nginx-0.7.59.tar.gz

$ wget http://sysoev.ru/nginx/nginx-0.7.62.tar.gz

$ tar xpf nginx-0.7.62.tar.gz

$ cd nginx-0.7.62

I Recommend using nginx 0.6 series because I had a lot of “502 Bad Gateway” with 0.7 series.

$ wget http://sysoev.ru/nginx/nginx-0.6.37.tar.gz

$ tar xpf nginx-0.6.37.tar.gz

$ cd nginx-0.6.37

$ sudo ./configure --add-module=/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.5/ext/nginx/ \
  --with-http_ssl_module --user=nobody --group=nobody --with-http_gzip_static_module \
  --with-poll_module --prefix=/opt/local --with-pcre

Configuration summary
+ using system PCRE library
+ using system OpenSSL library
+ md5: using OpenSSL library
+ sha1 library is not used
+ using system zlib library

nginx path prefix: "/opt/local"
nginx binary file: "/opt/local/sbin/nginx"
nginx configuration prefix: "/opt/local/conf"
nginx configuration file: "/opt/local/conf/nginx.conf"
nginx pid file: "/opt/local/logs/nginx.pid"
nginx error log file: "/opt/local/logs/error.log"
nginx http access log file: "/opt/local/logs/access.log"
nginx http client request body temporary files: "client_body_temp"
nginx http proxy temporary files: "proxy_temp"
nginx http fastcgi temporary files: "fastcgi_temp"

$ sudo make

$ sudo make install

$ cd /opt/local/conf

$ sudo cp mime.types.default mime.types

$ sudo cp nginx.conf.default nginx.conf

Edit nginx.conf

$ mate nginx.conf

or

$ sudo vi nginx.conf

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user nobody;
worker_processes  2;
 
#error_log  logs/error.log;
#error_log  logs/error.log  notice;
error_log  logs/error.log  info;
 
# Pid
pid  logs/nginx.pid;
 
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
 
http {
include       mime.types;
default_type  application/octet-stream;
 
sendfile        on;
#tcp_nopush     on;
 
#keepalive_timeout  0;
keepalive_timeout  65;
 
gzip  on;
# if a precompiled gzip of the file exists, use it and force http proxies
# to use separate cache's based on User-Agent
gzip_static on;
gzip_min_length 2000;
gzip_buffers    16 8k;
gzip_types      text/plain text/html text/css image/x-icon application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
gzip_disable    "MSIE [1-6] \.";
gzip_vary         on;
gzip_comp_level   2;
 
gzip_proxied any;
 
server {
listen       80;
server_name  localhost;
location / {
root   /Users/fred/Sites ;
autoindex on;
index  index.html index.htm;
}
}
 
passenger_root /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2;
passenger_max_pool_size 8;
passenger_max_instances_per_app 1;
# The maximum number of seconds that an application instance may be idle.
# That is, if an application instance hasn’t received any traffic after the given number of seconds,
# then it will be shutdown in order to conserve memory.
passenger_pool_idle_time 3600;
 
# Project 1
server {
listen 80;
client_max_body_size 250M;
server_name project1.local;
root /Users/fred/rails/project1/public;
passenger_enabled on;
rails_env development;
access_log  /Users/fred/rails/project1/log/nginx.access.log;
error_log  /Users/fred/rails/project1/log/nginx.error.log info;
}
 
# Project 2
server {
listen 80;
client_max_body_size 250M;
server_name project2.local;
root /Users/fred/rails/project2/public;
passenger_enabled on;
rails_env development;
access_log  /Users/fred/rails/project2/log/nginx.access.log;
error_log  /Users/fred/rails/project2/log/nginx.error.log info;
}
 
# Project 3
server {
listen 80;
client_max_body_size 250M;
server_name project3.local;
root /Users/fred/rails/project3/public;
passenger_enabled on;
rails_env development;
access_log  /Users/fred/rails/project3/log/nginx.access.log;
error_log  /Users/fred/rails/project3/log/nginx.error.log info;
}
 
# And so on... as many projects as you want
 
}

Now edit your /etc/hosts and add the hosts for your local project

$ mate /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1   project1.local

127.0.0.1   project2.local

127.0.0.1   project3.local

3. Start nginx

sudo nginx

4. go to your browser and open project1.local

5. Easy start/restart/stop

add this to your ~/.bash_profile file

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function nginx_reload() {
FILE="/opt/local/logs/nginx.pid"
if [ -e $FILE ]; then
echo "Reloading NGINX..."
PID=`cat /opt/local/logs/nginx.pid`
sudo kill -HUP $PID
else
echo "Nginx pid file not found"
return 0
fi
}
 
function nginx_stop() {
FILE="/opt/local/logs/nginx.pid"
if [ -e $FILE ]; then
echo "Stopping NGINX..."
PID=`cat /opt/local/logs/nginx.pid`
sudo kill -INT $PID
else
echo "Nginx pid file not found"
return 0
fi
}
 
function nginx_restart() {
FILE="/opt/local/logs/nginx.pid"
if [ -e $FILE ]; then
echo "Stopping NGINX..."
PID=`cat /opt/local/logs/nginx.pid`
sudo kill -INT $PID
sleep 1
echo "Starting NGINX..."
sudo nginx
else
echo "Nginx pid file not found"
return 0
fi
}

Troubleshooting

1. Nginx is not running

- check the logs

- check if it is really not running:

$ ps aux | grep nginx

2. you see the nginx error “502 Bad Gateway”

- may there is a problem with the /var/folders/ permissions on OSX:

2009/06/13 16:14:33 [crit] 1106#0: *1 connect() to unix:/var/folders/xl/xlSRYvzFHH8Fcehc51ciyE+++TI/-Tmp-//passenger.1091/master/helper_server.sock failed (13: Permission denied) while connecting to upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: hassan.local, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "unix:/var/folders/xl/xlSRYvzFHH8Fcehc51ciyE+++TI/-Tmp-//passenger.1091/master/helper_server.sock:", host: "hassan.local"

to fix it I did this:

$ sudo find /var/folders/xl/ -name “master” -exec chmod 755 {} \;

$ sudo find /var/folders/xl/ -name “-Tmp-” -exec chmod 755 {} \;

everytime I reboot my mac I had to do that… I still dont know how to fix it…

anybody knows?

That is it for now.