We’re moving to using Nginx as our main web server and Thin as backend to run Rails.

Here’re the steps to install Nginx and Thin in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.

1. cd /home/downloads
2. sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev
3. wget http://sysoev.ru/nginx/nginx-0.6.32.tar.gz
4. tar xzf nginx-0.6.32.tar.gz
5. cd ngnix-0.6.32
6. ./configure
7. make
8. sudo make install
9. sudo gem install thin