Nginx

If you want to run volt directly, we recomend you run behind Nginx. You can setup Nginx to serve static assets (using bundle exec volt precompile) The following nginx.conf file can be used: (also, don't forget to include a mime.types file, see below)

nginx.confg

# you generally only need one nginx worker unless you're serving
# large amounts of static files which require blocking disk reads
worker_processes 1;

# # drop privileges, root is needed on most systems for binding to port 80
# # (or anything < 1024).  Capability-based security may be available for
# # your system and worth checking out so you won't need to be root to
# # start nginx to bind on 80
# user nobody nogroup; # for systems with a "nogroup"
# user nobody nobody; # for systems with "nobody" as a group instead

# Feel free to change all paths to suite your needs here, of course
# pid /path/to/nginx.pid;

error_log /Users/ryanstout/Sites/volt/apps/demos/blog_demo8/logs/nginx-error.log warn;


events {
  worker_connections  4096;  ## Default: 1024, keep in mind that you may need
                             ## to increase your systems max open file
                             ## descriptors for this to go above 1024
}

http {
  include    mime.types;

  # serve static files when asked to
  sendfile on;

  tcp_nopush on; # off may be better for *some* Comet/long-poll stuff
  tcp_nodelay off; # on may be better for some Comet/long-poll stuff

  # gzip compress when available
  gzip on;
  gzip_http_version 1.0;
  gzip_proxied any;
  gzip_min_length 500;
  gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.";
  gzip_types text/plain text/html text/xml text/css
             text/comma-separated-values
             text/javascript application/x-javascript
             application/atom+xml;

  upstream app_server {
    # fail_timeout=0 means we always retry an upstream even if it failed
    # to return a good HTTP response (in case the Unicorn master nukes a
    # single worker for timing out).

    # for UNIX domain socket setups:
    # server unix:/path/to/.unicorn.sock fail_timeout=0;

    # for TCP setups, point these to your backend servers
    server localhost:3000 fail_timeout=0;
    # server 192.168.0.8:8080 fail_timeout=0;
    # server 192.168.0.9:8080 fail_timeout=0;
  }

  server {
    listen 80;
    root /Users/ryanstout/Sites/volt/apps/demos/blog_demo8/public;

    client_max_body_size 4G;
    server_name localhost default deferred;


    # ~2 seconds is often enough for most folks to parse HTML/CSS and
    # retrieve needed images/icons/frames, connections are cheap in
    # nginx so increasing this is generally safe...
    keepalive_timeout 10;

    location ^~ /app/ {
      expires max;
      add_header Cache-Control public;
    }

    try_files $uri/index.html $uri.html $uri @app_server;

    access_log /Users/ryanstout/Sites/volt/apps/demos/blog_demo8/logs/nginx-access.log;

    location @app_server {
      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
      proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
      proxy_redirect off;
      proxy_read_timeout 3600s; # 1 hour timeout.  This is needed because the websocket connection timeouts after this amount of time.  Volt will reconnect, but it will show a disconnect message.
      proxy_http_version 1.1;
      proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
      proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
      proxy_pass http://app_server;
    }

    # Volt error pages
    error_page 500 502 503 504 /500.html;
    location = /500.html {
      root /Users/ryanstout/Sites/volt/apps/demos/blog_demo8/public;
    }
  }
}

Mime.types

The following mime.types is updated to support some newer font formats.

types {
  text/html                             html htm shtml;
  font/ttf                              ttf;
  font/opentype                         otf;
  application/font-woff                 woff;
  application/vnd.ms-fontobject         eot;
  text/css                              css;
  text/xml                              xml rss;
  image/gif                             gif;
  image/jpeg                            jpeg jpg;
  application/x-javascript              js;
  text/plain                            txt;
  text/x-component                      htc;
  text/mathml                           mml;
  image/png                             png;
  image/x-icon                          ico;
  image/x-jng                           jng;
  image/vnd.wap.wbmp                    wbmp;
  application/java-archive              jar war ear;
  application/mac-binhex40              hqx;
  application/pdf                       pdf;
  application/x-cocoa                   cco;
  application/x-java-archive-diff       jardiff;
  application/x-java-jnlp-file          jnlp;
  application/x-makeself                run;
  application/x-perl                    pl pm;
  application/x-pilot                   prc pdb;
  application/x-rar-compressed          rar;
  application/x-redhat-package-manager  rpm;
  application/x-sea                     sea;
  application/x-shockwave-flash         swf;
  application/x-stuffit                 sit;
  application/x-tcl                     tcl tk;
  application/x-x509-ca-cert            der pem crt;
  application/x-xpinstall               xpi;
  application/zip                       zip;
  application/octet-stream              deb;
  application/octet-stream              bin exe dll;
  application/octet-stream              dmg;
  application/octet-stream              iso img;
  application/octet-stream              msi msp msm;
  audio/mpeg                            mp3;
  audio/x-realaudio                     ra;
  video/mpeg                            mpeg mpg;
  video/quicktime                       mov;
  video/x-flv                           flv;
  video/x-msvideo                       avi;
  video/x-ms-wmv                        wmv;
  video/x-ms-asf                        asx asf;
  video/x-mng                           mng;
}