User to start Passenger (with Nginx)

Question

I have Nginx with Passenger. In nginx.conf I have line:

user pass users;

and Nginx process works on \'pass\' user, but Passenger* processe

Answer 1

Put the following into your nginx.conf in the http block:

passenger_default_user custom_username;
passenger_default_group custom_group;

You can find more configuration options here:

http://modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Nginx.html#PassengerDefaultUser

Answer 2

You can pass a user line into your nginx conf. http://wiki.nginx.org/CoreModule#user

I suggest that in the future you ask server questions on ServerFault, they usually know a lot more about nginx and passenger.

Answer 3

At one point the user and group were determined by the owners of the config.ru file. I'm pretty sure this is still the case.