NGINX Buildpack for Dokku - Hosting static pages with Bower and Grunt automation

This buildpack has been successfully run on Digital Ocean instances of Ubuntu 14.04 (Status: Jan 2015). It might also work with different configurations.

If you do not want Bower, Grunt and it's dependecies installed then see this buildpack

Purpose

buildpack-nginx provides a simple, low overhead way of hosting static pages and websites on Dokku. Just add the .env and .static file to the root directory of your website as described below.

It also installs NodeJS, bower and grunt to perform extra tasks on your static website and runs grunt build --force task.

Usage

1. Add a file with the name .env in the root of your directory with the following content: export BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/fagbokforlaget/buildpack-nginx.git
2. Add another, empty file called .static to your root directory of your web project
3. Push your project to Dokku

All static files that you want to serve should be in the root directory of your repository. No need to use a seperate www folder. buildpack-nginx will automatically download the buildpack, download NGINX, compile it, and install it. The next time you push your project, the buildpack will reuse the precompiled binaries.

NGINX CONFIGURATION

Override default configuration by adding nginx.conf.erb in the root directory

Credits and License

buildpack-nginx is licensed under the CC0 1.0 Universal license and has been informed by many similar projects on the web

• Florian Heinemann
• Deepak Thukral