Passenger with nginx on Mac OS X (2nd edition)

by Trevor Turk

This is a fancy new guide for setting up nginx with Passenger support on Mac OS X. You can refer to the first edition here if you like.

Let’s begin.

  • Install Ruby Version Manager (optional)
  • Install Homebrew
  • Install Passenger 
    gem install passenger
  • Install nginx with Passenger support 
    brew install nginx --with-passenger
  • Follow the instructions (Caveats) that Homebrew prints out
  • Open your nginx conf file 
    mate /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
  • Replace the contents of the file with this: 
    worker_processes 1;

events {
  worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
  include mime.types;
  default_type application/octet-stream;
  sendfile on;
  keepalive_timeout 65;

  passenger_root /Users/trevorturk/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p302/gems/passenger-2.2.15;
  passenger_ruby /Users/trevorturk/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p302/bin/ruby;

  server {
     listen 8080;
     server_name eldorado.local;
     root /Users/trevorturk/Code/eldorado/public;
     passenger_enabled on;
     rack_env development;
  }
}
  • …then replace the passenger_root config option with your passenger root directory 
    passenger-config --root
  • …then replace the passenger_ruby with your ruby location 
    which ruby
  • …then replace and/or create new server blocks as necessary for your apps
  • Restart nginx 
    kill -HUP `cat /usr/local/var/run/nginx.pid`
  • Add your apps to your hosts file 
    mate /etc/hosts

    For example… 

    127.0.0.1 eldorado.local
  • Visit one of your apps to make sure it’s working: 
    open http://kzak.local:8080

fin

Note that I’m not sure how to get nginx running on port 80, and I’m not bothered enough to figure it out at the moment. Please leave a helpful comment for others if you take the time, though!

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