Protecting the content of public/ in a Rails app

Question

I\'m maintaining a Rails app that has content in the public/ folder that will now need to be protected by a login. We\'re considering moving those folders of files into a p

Answer 1

AFAIK, X-SendFile is not supported by nginx. Nginx has its own extension allowing this, called X-Accel-Redirect.

You will find more information about this here : https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/examples/xsendfile/

There is also a rails plugin implementig this feature, on github: goncalossilva/X-Accel-Redirect