Ruby Application Webroot Location

Question

I have inherited a ruby application at work and I am fairly new to ruby hosting environments. The application is hosted on a linux server but I am unable to find where the webroot is.

I have looked for /var/www which is the webroot for apache on linux for other applications I have been working with. But that location doesn't exist on this server.

I was looking through the folders on the server and got a feeling that it might be using Nginx+passenger. Could someone point me in the right direction where to look? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Which distro are you running? What is the application's name? — quanta, Aug 30 '12 at 16:34
The application is a custom app written by another team. And, how do I find out what distro is the server using? (The server has been setup by the server team and I am trying to figure this application so I cas start making some customizations) — Helius 06, Aug 30 '12 at 16:37
The etc directory doesn't have a httpd file or directory. However it has a nginx director and and nginx conf. It has a root value: root /home/formengine/current/public; — Helius 06, Aug 30 '12 at 16:48
what is a document root? (sorry to be a pest but I thing I am closer to finding it that before) — Helius 06, Aug 30 '12 at 16:54
Actually, nevermind my last comment. I think I understood what you meand. I did find the applicaiton at formengine/current — Helius 06, Aug 30 '12 at 16:57

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 31 '12 at 07:49

Enter nginx -V to find out if nginx is installed and where the web root is. The configuration for nginx is normally located at /etc/nginx but the command will tell you.

If you have another webserver installed (e.g. nginx -V returns command not found) the process is different.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 31 '12 at 09:37

if nginx was installed as a package, the config file will be probably located in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf, you might find the global server settings like this:

http {
    passenger_root /usr/share/phusion-passenger/source/bin/passenger;
    passenger_ruby /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin/ruby;

    server {
            listen 127.0.0.1:80;
            server_name localhost;

            root /var/www/localhost/htdocs;
    }
    include virtuals/*;
 }

If there is just one application it could be specified by the root tag /etc/nginx/nginx.conf. In case that you have there many applications, it's probably in virtuals folder (you should look for include). The name of the folder could be different, but it's something like sites-enabled in apache

Ruby Application Webroot Location

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