howto: nginx with php and Passenger (mod_rails) at once
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nginx is one hell of a webserver. It's fast, efficient, small and reliable. According to Netcraft's webserver survey about 3 percent of world's webserver are using nginx to deliver content and the amount of nginx-powered servers is growing strong.
Since I was bothered by administrating another Apache (I do this all day long) and because I was tired of letting the Apache balance on several Mongrels which is not just slow, but also quite inefficient for this low-traffic blog, I just migrated my whole environment to be served by nginx. And that wasn't much of a problem.
Here's how I proceeded on ...