Rails/Nginx not serving JS and CSS

Question

I deployed a Rails 3.2.8 application via Capistrano, with asset pipeline enabled, to my Linode server.

It is running nginx + unicorn.

When I visit my application, the minimised JS and CSS are not being served, although the assets are present in <RAILS_DIR>/public/assets.

$ tree assets
assets
|-- application-66e477d6fd8cf088e8be44affeead089.css
|-- application-66e477d6fd8cf088e8be44affeead089.css.gz
|-- application-7d3ead38a0b5e276a97d48e52044ac31.js
|-- application-7d3ead38a0b5e276a97d48e52044ac31.js.gz

In my application, I can see those exact files not being found:

error

This is my nginx configuration:

server {
  listen 80 default deferred;
  server_name me.example.com;
  root /home/kennym/apps/app/current/public;

  location ^~ /assets/ {
    add_header Last-Modified "";
    add_header ETag "";
    gzip_static on;
    expires max;
    add_header Cache-Control public;
  }

  try_files $uri/index.html $uri @unicorn;
  location @unicorn {
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    proxy_redirect off;
    proxy_pass http://unicorn;
  }

  error_page 500 502 503 504 /500.html;
  client_max_body_size 4G;
  keepalive_timeout 10;
}

Can you guess what is wrong?

Erik Peterson · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-11 07:21:59Z

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location ^~ /assets/ should be location ~ ^/assets/.

The former is does not match /assets/, the latter is matches a pattern that starts with /assets/

Update your nginx config to get caching and pre-gzipped file serving working again.

answered Oct 11, 2012 at 7:21

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Kenny Meyer · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-30 15:50:23Z

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I fixed this by commenting out the location ^~ /assets/ block in the nginx.conf.

answered Sep 30, 2012 at 15:50

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Saad Masood Over a year ago

This is ok only when you want rails server to hanlde the static files instead of nginx. Kind of defeats the purpose of nginx if thats only what you're using it for.

Kenny Meyer Over a year ago

agreed... it's kind of a hack.

Niek · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-29 14:39:26Z

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For those having the same issue, for me the solution was to go into /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf and set the root field correctly.

answered Sep 29, 2017 at 14:39

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