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Installing Nginx-GridFS on OSX

Follow these steps to install ’s on OSX. Linux coming soon.

cd ~/src # your sources directory
mkdir nginx_gridfs && cd nginx_gridfs
git clone git://github.com/mdirolf/nginx-gridfs.git  
wget http://sysoev.ru/nginx/nginx-0.7.62.tar.gz
tar -zxvf nginx-0.7.62.tar.gz
 
sudo port install boost pcre++ spidermonkey scons # macports!
 
cd nginx-0.7.62/
 
# i put mongodb at /mongodb - alter to fit your installation
export MONGO_INCLUDE_PATH=/mongodb/include/mongo/ 
export LIBMONGOCLIENT=/mongodb/lib/libmongoclient.a
export BOOST_INCLUDE_PATH=/opt/local/include/
export LIBBOOST_THREAD=/opt/local/lib/libboost_thread-mt.a
export LIBBOOST_FILESYSTEM=/opt/local/lib/libboost_filesystem-mt.a 
export LIBBOOST_SYSTEM=/opt/local/lib/libboost_system-mt.a 
 
./configure --add-module=/Users/sho/src/nginx_gridfs/nginx-gridfs
make
sudo make install

In nginx.conf:

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  localhost;
 
    location / {
        root   html;
        index  index.html index.htm;
    }
 
    location /gridfs/ {
        gridfs;
        gridfs_db database-name;
 
        # these are the default values:
        mongod_host 127.0.0.1:27017;
        gridfs_root_collection fs;
    }
 
    # blah
 
}

You should now be able to start nginx using /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx and navigate to 127.0.0.1/gridfs/#{file_name}.

UPDATE: for snow leopard, python is in /usr/bin, so you may need to symlink it like this for scons to find it:

$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2.5 /opt/local/bin/python2.5

Also, nginx is updated to 0.8.30 now; these instructions work for the latest version too.

UPDATE 2: Currently the best version of this to use is , which simply pulls together a number of different patches to make a working version. Well, works for me, anyway!

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4 Responses to “Installing Nginx-GridFS on OSX”

  1. Mike Dirolf Says:
    October 7th, 2009 at 11:11 pm

    Thanks for the writeup Sho! There’ll be more work coming on this project soon.

  2. Sho Says:
    October 7th, 2009 at 11:25 pm

    Thanks Mike! Looking forward to it.

  3. Tristen Says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 3:17 pm

    Thanks for the write-up. The project appears to be stalled, do you know any more about what’s going on?

  4. Persson Says:
    December 29th, 2009 at 8:59 pm

    Thanks Sho!
    Building from mdirolf’s branch caused problems with random files not getting served correctly. Cloning from Sho’s branch instead (git clone git://github.com/sho/nginx-gridfs.git) solved the issue.

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