Getting upload process via Nginx + Unicorn

Question

I'm using Nginx to reverse proxy my Unicorn process for a Rails app that I have. I would like to be able to get a progress status (similar to apache-upload-progress-module) for file uploads. I tried to use NginxHttpUploadProgressModule but /progress still routes to the Rails app so that doesn't work. I followed the steps in NginxHttpUploadProgressModule so I'm really at a stopping point here.

Answer 1

Without seeing the exact configuration you implemented, nor debug log, it is difficult to understand what can be wrong.

I suggest you:

1. compile nginx with the --with-debug option and activate debug log with the error_log directive.
2. check the debug log for the /progress request and look the order of the tested locations.

It is well possible you are using try_files and your /progress location doesn't trigger because it is located after your catch all location. You can try to put the /progress location at the top of your server {} directive

Answer 2

I am using it, have a

location ^~ /progress {
  upload_progress_json_output;
  report_uploads proxied;
}

section in the server block and it works fine, Rails never sees /progress.

Answer 3

Alright so, I figured it out with the help of both you guys (masterzen, and j-l). I didn't have

location ^~ /progress {
  upload_progress_json_output;
  report_uploads proxied;
}

but

location ^~ /progress {
  report_uploads proxied;
}

and masterzen's comment helped also as I had

location / {
  # blah blah
}

before the /progress. Thank you so much guys!!