From e6153beda8527c7246565ff7deae93c766d6d2cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Olexandr Skrypnyk <ukraine.sax@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:34:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] replace if statement with try_files in nginx.conf

http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil
---
 doc/installation.md | 14 +++++---------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/installation.md b/doc/installation.md
index 823bd483..615efd27 100644
--- a/doc/installation.md
+++ b/doc/installation.md
@@ -220,15 +220,11 @@ Edit /etc/nginx/nginx.conf. Add next code to **http** section:
     server {
         listen 80;
         server_name mygitlab.com;
-
-        location / {
-
-            root /home/gitlab/gitlab/public;
-
-            if (!-f $request_filename) {
-                proxy_pass http://gitlab; 
-                break;
-            }
+        root /home/gitlab/gitlab/public;
+        try_files $uri $uri/index.html $uri.html @gitlab;
+        
+        location @gitlab {
+          proxy_pass http://gitlab;
         }
 
     }