Heroku buildpack: nginx
This is a Heroku buildpack for nginx.
Usage
Example usage:
$ ls -R *
conf:
mime.types nginx.conf.erb
html:
index.html
$ heroku create --stack cedar --buildpack http://github.com/neilmiddleton/heroku-buildpack-nginx.git
...
$ git push heroku master
...
-----> Heroku receiving push
-----> Fetching custom buildpack... done
-----> Nginx app detected
-----> Fetching nginx binaries
-----> Vendoring nginx 1.5.10
...
The buildpack will detect your app as nginx if it has the file
nginx.conf.erb in the conf directory. You must define all listen
directives as listen <%= ENV['PORT'] %>; and also include daemon off; in
order for this buildpack to work correctly.
As an alternative to the above instructions you may wish to investigate heroku-buildpack-multi in order to support more complex use-cases such as compiling a static site that is served by nginx or placing nginx in front of app server processes.
Hacking
To modify this buildpack, fork it on Github. Push up changes to your fork, then
create a test app with --buildpack <your-github-url> and push to it.
To change the vendored binaries for nginx use the helper script in the
support/ subdirectory. You may wish to edit the helper script to modify
the nginx build options to suit your needs. You'll need an S3-enabled
AWS account and a bucket to store your binaries in.
For example, you can change the vendored version of nginx to 1.0.12.
First you'll need to build a Heroku-compatible version of nginx:
$ export AWS_ID=xxx AWS_SECRET=yyy S3_BUCKET=zzz
$ s3 create $S3_BUCKET
$ support/package_nginx 1.5.10 8.34
The first argument to the package_nginx script is the nginx version. The second argument is the version of PCRE to compile nginx against.
Open bin/compile in your editor, and change the following lines:
NGINX_VERSION="1.5.10"
S3_BUCKET=zzz
Commit and push the changes to your buildpack to your Github fork, then push your sample app to Heroku to test. You should see:
-----> Vendoring nginx 1.5.10