ruby on rails - setting up nginx.conf file -

i have vps passenger , nginx installed , trying app deployed, however, i'm getting 404 error. in vpn app located in:

~/app1

so in nginx.conf file have following:

 server {         listen       80;         server_name  localhost;          location / {             root /app1/public;         }          passenger_enabled on;   } 

however, tried setting root ~/app1/public, still got 404, i'm not quite sure how set up.

also, don't quite understand , pointing public work, don't have default index.html file, rather in routes.rb define root :to => "controller#index". how passenger find index page inside /views when pointing public directory?

thanks

try this

server {     listen 80;     # server_name mysite.com;     root /app1/public;     passenger_enabled on; } 

and restart nginx:
$ sudo service nginx restart