Open Source Phusion Passenger Module for Nginx on CentOS 6

Phusion Passenger is a web server and application server for your web apps which built upon Ruby or NodeJS. In this documentation I will show how to install open source version of Phusion Passenger on CentOS 6.6 using Ruby gem installation.

Check your Ruby location

which ruby
/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.5/bin/ruby

In this tutorial I assume your Ruby is installed using RVM Install passenger using gem command

gem install passenger -V

Install passenger module for nginx

rvmsudo passenger-install-nginx-module

Follow the installation steps and you can customize your nginx installation if you want Download init script for nginx and install

wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/prasetiyohadi/90355ce4b02487261f58/raw/35319a9b63331a9503424c40489d7be27387584d/nginx
mv nginx /etc/init.d/nginx
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/nginx

Start nginx service

sudo chkconfig nginx on
sudo service nginx start
sudo service nginx status

Reference: https://www.phusionpassenger.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Nginx.html#rubygems_generic_install https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-rails-apps-using-passenger-with-nginx-on-centos-6-5