How to convert Apache's `AllowOverride all` to nginx

Question

I have an Apache2 & Passenger site for Rails app, that uses following configuration:

  ServerName localhost
  DocumentRoot /var/www/         


        

Answer 1

Passenger author here. There is no equivalent for 'AllowOverride all' in Nginx, and you don't need it either. All you need is a virtual host block with the 'root' pointing to your app's 'public' directory, and 'passenger_enabled on':

server {
   listen 80;
   server_name www.example.com;
   root /var/www/site/public;
   passenger_enabled on;
}

...as explained by the official Passenger documentation's deployment instructions.

passenger_app_root and passenger_document_root are automatically inferred for you from root. There is no need for try_files either because Passenger automatically serves static files for you through Nginx.

You should read the official documentation.