Heroku buildpack: nginx

This is a Heroku buildpack for nginx. The nginx is build using the source form (http://nginx.org/download/nginx-<nginx_version>.tar.gz). Built binary is cached to speedup future builds.

Usage

Example usage:

$ ls -R *
conf:
mime.types     _nginx.cfg     nginx.conf.erb

$ heroku create --stack cedar --buildpack https://github.com/abhishekmunie/heroku-buildpack-nginx.git
...

$ git push heroku master
...
-----> Fetching custom buildpack... done
-----> Nginx app detected
-----> Vendoring nginx 1.3.15... done
-----> Creating startup script... done
-----> Creating Procfile... done
-----> Discovering process types
...

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.

To start the server run bin/start_nginx. If no Procfile is present buildpack will create one with web: bin/start_nginx

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.