Can my /public directory be a symlink with rails 3 + passenger 3 + nginx 0.8?

Question

I\'m putting together a rails deployment where the public directory is a symlink to another directory on the system. This is with passenger 3 on nginx .8. It does\'t seem

Answer 1

I was able to do this with the guide linked below.

1. Create your rails app in /var/www/html
2. Delete default.
3. Edit the /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file
4. symlink to sites-enabled
5. Restart nginx

How to Deploy Ruby on Rails with Passenger and Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04

Answer 2

Can't you use the following:

mount --bind /original_path /your_ngnix_root_path

instead of using symlinks? For ngnix it would be a usual directory, why it will point to another directory as you wanted it to be.

Answer 3

I think it is not possible to use a symlinked public directory. The only workaround I can imagine is to symlink any file and directory inside of the public dir.

# public folder: /data/public
# app folder: /webapp/
mkdir -p /webapp/public && ln -sf /data/public/* /webapp/public/

For every new file or directory in /data/public you have to run this command again.