Nginx only serves images, but not css or js, Rails 3.1

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Here's my conf for the website on Rails 3.1:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name test.mysite.com www.test.mysite.com;
    root /var/www/mysite/test/current/public;

    location ~* ^/assets/ {
            expires max;
            add_header Cache-Control public;
            break;
    }

    passenger_enabled on;


    error_page  404  /404.html;
    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
    error_page   500 502 503 504  /500.html;

    client_max_body_size 10M;

    if (-f $document_root/maintenance.html) {
            rewrite  ^(.*)$  /maintenance.html break;
    }

}

Only images are rendered though. css and js show 404 page. What am I doing wrong?

Are you sure you have set the correct permissions on your CSS, JavaScript files ? — vincent jacquel
– vincent jacquel, Commented Jul 17, 2011 at 22:21

Anatoly · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-17 12:48:32Z

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I'd like to share with you my configuration on Github of nginx+passenger in production mode. it resolves you problem with server static content right way

answered Jul 17, 2011 at 12:48

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orion3 Over a year ago

Thanks. Good stuff in there. However, I looked through it carefully and I haven't found what is the problem with my configuration. The only relevant block about static assets is basically the same as mine. To be sure I copypasted it, but still no luck. What am I not seeing?

Anatoly Over a year ago

where your css/js are located? can you copy-paste nginx error.log please?

Anatoly Over a year ago

and check the permissions for the directories, to ensure that nginx can serve them as well. Rails3 turned off the assets serve by default, so nginx probably has some issues with access to static content

orion3 Over a year ago

css/js are in /var/www/mysite/test/current/public/assets error.log contains nothing related to the problem. The last entry is unknown directive "gzip_static" in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/test.mysite.com:8 (don't know why it's not supported, but I removed it anyway). I visited the page, then checked error.log - nothing new appeared in it. Permissions are set to "READ for all" on files and "EXECUTE for all" on dirs.

Anatoly Over a year ago

if "gzip_static" is in the configs, it's looking gzipped files only.

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orion3 · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-18 02:26:27Z

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Apparently, I haven't payed enough attention. Those css and js files were not actually compiled for some reason and, thus, have not appeared in assets/public dir. At least not all of them: for instance application.css is there, but other css files are not. Anyway, that is not an nginx problem, so I'm marking this as the right answer.

answered Jul 18, 2011 at 2:26

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Alejandro Riedel · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-20 20:45:32Z

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I had the same issue, one of my stylesheets was not being compiled, but this guide provided me with a solution.

I added my custom.css to config/environments/production.rb this way...

config.assets.precompile += ['custom.css']

After that I issued bundle exec rake assets:precompile and my problem was solved.

answered Sep 20, 2012 at 20:45

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