Hi Please someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think using Nginx with chroot is useful when dealing with proxy_pass or fastcgi application. If your RoR app is compromised, it won't be chrooted as it's not running in a chroot. All nginx will do is serving static files.
Regards 2013/6/9 <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > Is anybody here running Ruby on Rails in the chrooted nginx(8) and know if > it's worth the hassle? > > I notice the docs saying: "Some applications are pretty simple, and > chroot(2)ing them makes sense. Others are very complex, and are either not > worth the effort of forcing them into a chroot(2), or by the time you copy > enough of the system into the chroot, you have lost the benefit of the > chroot(2) environment." -- http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#httpdchroot > > O.D.
