Rails Servers with Unicorn and Nginx

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This course is a part of Deploying Rails Apps, a 6-course Track series from Treehouse.

In this workshop, we're going to show you how to set up a "reverse proxy" between your Rails app and the Internet at large. We've going to use a high-performance web server called Nginx as our reverse proxy. Nginx will also serve the static files in our app's "public/" directory, so Rails doesn't have to.

We'll also set up Unicorn, an HTTP server that will manage connections to your actual Rails app. Unicorn is good for your site's stability and speed.

• Nginx, Unicorn, and Rails
• Set up Nginx
• Installing Unicorn
• Final Touches to Nginx Configuration