Phusion Passenger

What is this?

Passenger is an application server that allows you to securely operate web apps, microservices & APIs with outstanding reliability, performance and control. By acting as a process manager, reverse proxy and by providing operations tools, Passenger enables you to quickly launch and easily maintain Ruby, Node.js, Python and Meteor apps.

Phussion Passenger

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How to install it?

Create a bash file and add the following content:

#!/bin/bash

apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 561F9B9CAC40B2F7
apt-get install -y apt-transport-https ca-certificates

sh -c 'echo deb https://oss-binaries.phusionpassenger.com/apt/passenger trusty main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/passenger.list'
apt-get update

apt-get install -y nginx-extras passenger

Depending on the version of passenger you installed you either need to:

A) uncomment lines passenger_root and passenger_ruby in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file and then restart nginx with sudo service nginx restart.

B) Edit /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and uncomment include /etc/nginx/passenger.conf; by removing the # character in the beginning of the line and then restart nginx with sudo service nginx restart.

Docs

Phussion Passenger docs can be found here.