Joseph O. Wrote:
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ok, first make sure your railsapp is loading as expected and
working w/out nginx in front; you can check it from that machine using
w3m/lynx or telnet. if this works we'll check the nginx-part.


> *sigh* Clearly I am missing something here, as the only nginx.conf
> file
> I have is the one I posted last night. There is no upstream server;
> the
> code for that was from the example config file I was trying to modify
> for my purposes.

you define a upstream {} section but you dont use it later, instead of
proxy_pass $upstream you define proxy_pass to use a hostname
instead of your upstream; thats a mismatch in your config




>
> It seems that this copypasta approach isn't adequate for setting this
> up properly

+1 :)

you'll find some howtos and best-practice-guides for various applications
here: http://wiki.nginx.org/Configuration

but understanding what you're doing is key for long-time-happyness.
basically, your setup is quite simple and straight-forward.



regards,


mex