Nevermind, I got it all figured out.
Patrick J. Collins
https://collinatorstudios.com
On Thu, 15 Feb 2024, Patrick J. Collins wrote:
> I have a rails app that is purely an api server, with an angular frontend
> living under a subfolder in the public directory.. So the server's file
> structure is like this:
>
> ```
> home/
> my-app/
> app/
> controllers/
> ..etc
> config/
> ..etc
> public
> favicon.ico
> 404.html
> angular-app/
> index.html
> 12345.js
> 45678.js
> some-picture.jpg
> ```
>
> I had a wildcard route in my rails app that was manually loading the angular
> files and serving them, and I am trying to let nginx server them as static
> files and no longer do this. The desired behavior that I am looking for is:
>
> * visiting '/api/*' will render the response from the rails server
> * visiting '/' will render the index file inside
> `public/angular-app/index.html`
> * visiting '/404.html' will render `public/404.html`
> * visiting '/some-picture.jpg' will render
> `public/angular-app/some-picture.jpg`
>
> it seems that passenger is breaking the behavior that I want... If I have
> just a vanilla nginx config that has:
>
> ```
> server {
> ...
> root '/home/my-app/public'
>
> location = / {
> index angular-app/index.html;
> }
>
> location {
> try_files $uri angular-app/$uri;
> }
> ...
> }
> ```
>
> Then the behavior for visiting `/`, `/404.html`, and `/some-picture.jpg` is
> all perfect... But to get the rails server stuff to work, I need
> passenger... and as I add to the config:
> ```
> passenger_app_root /home/my-app/;
> passenger_enabled on;
> ```
>
> Then trying to go to anything other than an api route (routes defined in the
> rails app's config) will result in a 500...
>
> I tried experimenting with restructuring my nginx config to something like:
> ```
> server {
> ...
> root '/home/my-app/public'
>
> location /api/ {
> passenger_app_root /home/my-app/;
> passenger_enabled on;
> }
>
> location ^/api/ {
> index angular-app/index.html;
> passenger_enabled off;
> }
> ...
> }
> ```
> And I still end up with 500s going anywhere other than api endpoints... Does
> anyone one know what I can do to make this work?
>
> Patrick J. Collins
> https://collinatorstudios.com
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