How to use sub uri to login in rails 3.2.12 with passenger/nginx

Question

Our Rails 3.2.12 app is hosted under subdirectory /nbhy. The routes.rb is (related only):

  root :to => "authentify::sessions#new"
  match '/signin',  :to => 'authentify::sessions#new'
  match '/signout', :to => 'authentify::sessions#destroy'

Here authentify is the rails engine which handles user authentication. Here is the routes.rb in engine authentify:

  resource :session
  root :to => 'sessions#new'
  match '/signin',  :to => 'sessions#new'
  match '/signout', :to => 'sessions#destroy'

In order to login we have to use the link:

http://mysite.com/nbhy/authentify/session/new

But this link is too long and not easy to remember. If we login at:

http://mysite.com/nbhy

The system will throw out error 404 Not Found and redirect page to:

http://mysite.com/authentify/session

The problem is that the app is redirecting the login request to /authentify/session which can not be found (missing nbhy). Why nbhy is missing and how can we put it back in url so user can login from http://mysite.com/nbhy?

Here is the nginx config on ubuntu 12.04 server for the sub uri:

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name mysite.com;
        root /var/www/;
        passenger_enabled on;
        rails_env production;
        passenger_base_uri /nbhy;
}

Answer 1

Try:

namespace :nbhy do
    match '/signin',  :to => 'authentify::sessions#new', :as => "signin"
    match '/signout', :to => 'authentify::sessions#destroy', :as => "signout"

    root :to => "signin"
end

And remove the base uri from passenger.

Alternatively

You can change the server root:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name mysite.com;
    root /var/www/nbhy;
    passenger_enabled on;
    rails_env production;
}

Which is very acceptable and thats what I do in all of my websites. bacuse it connectes between the domain and the root path.

Than all of your rotes are normal.