Greetings. I’m implementing portal software called Metadot. It was
orginally Perl – ported to Rails about 1 yr ago. There’s a bunch of
Perl-isms and silliness that makes it somewhat dependent on Apache2 /
fcgi.
I’m trying to use Nginx to proxy/balance dynamic requests to multiple
Apache2/Passenger servers. I want Nginx to serve up all static content
so that Aapche2 can serve just rails. They put attachments and images
in a separate directory outside the rails root. Then they pre-pended
the filename with 8 digits made up of zeros and the file’s id. I want
to rewrite specific file formats to their actual filenames and dirs.
Example for user uploaded images. {png | ico | jpg | gif | etc…}
request comes in as: /metadot/image_library/image.gif
maps to: …/…/metadot-on-rails-attachments/00000001/00000022-image.gif
22 is the file id and image.gif is the [already unique] filename.
metadot-on-rails-attachments is at the same level as the rails root, not
inside it.
Please help! I’ve been lost on this all day.
Thanks! Paul