# Here we define a cluster of hunchentoot servers # this can later be extend for load-balancing # if we had more instances of hunchentoot. In this # case i only have one instance running. upstream hunchentoot { server 127.0.0.1:8000; } server { listen 80; server_name sample.ponto-dot.com root /var/www/sample.ponto-dot.com/public/; # General request handling this will match all locations location / { # check if with it's a directory and there'a an index.html # if so, rewrite the url to include it and stop processing rules. if (-f $request_filename/index.html) { rewrite ^(.*) $1/index.html break; } # Define custom HTTP Headers to be used when proxying proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header Host $host; # if the requested file does not exist then # proxy to the hunchentoot server cluster if (!-f $request_filename) { proxy_pass http://hunchentoot; } } }