Static files with Nginx + Passenger
Normally, when you setup Nginx and Passenger to serve your rails application, all static files are served by Nginx without hitting Passenger. What really happens is that all static files that do exist are served by Nginx and the rest are passed on to mongrel.
For example http://www.mydomain.com/javascripts/prototype.js will be served by Nginx , but http://www.mydomain.com/javascripts/iamastupidrobot.js will continue to Passenger going all the way through the Rails stack. Instead of a simple 1ms nginx process , you get a full stack rails request with a route recognition error. Not good
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