Static vs REST routing with clojure ring

Question

I'm writing an angular/clojure ring webapp. All routes to the ring side will have an "/api" prefix and will be routed with compojure.

Serving upp all other static file with ring seems a bit messy though.

Is there a good way to direct "/api/whatever" requests to ring and all other to be served up as static files using jetty? or using any other major web server, like apache, nginx, lighttpd?

Answer 1

We put nginx infront of jetty and have nginx configured to serve the static stuff (actually redirects to a CDN) directly and proxy all the app stuff to jetty. In production jetty is running on a separate load balancer though this works out the same if they are running on the same instance.

Answer 2

If you want to run clojure Ring handlers with Nginx without any Java Web Server, eg. Jetty. please try Nginx-Clojure module.