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This configuration is intended to send people to Node unless it's a .gif, .jpg etc., but it doesn't seem to work (it always sends them to Nginx):

frontend all 0.0.0.0:80
  timeout client 86400000

  # ... unless they're on websockets, which Nginx can't handle
  acl is_websocket hdr(Upgrade) -i WebSocket
  acl is_websocket hdr_beg(Host) -i ws
  # static assets
  acl url_static path_end .jpg .jpeg .gif .png .ico .pdf .js .css .flv .swf
  acl is_domain hdr_end(host) -i SUB.DOMAIN.com
  # ... or are using Socket.io, which is served by node
  acl is_websocket path_beg /socket.io

  # conditional for hitting node
  use_backend node_backend  if !url_static is_domain
  use_backend nginx_backend if url_static

  # always send people to nginx
  default_backend nginx_backend

This is haproxy 1.4.

Edit: I should point out I'm serving static assets off the same domain as the Node.js stuff, but via Nginx. So the hostname is the same in both cases, I just want to forward requests for static assets to Nginx instead.

The chef documentation is pretty bad. And Google isn't helping me.

Can anyone point me at a decent article or something that would help me get started?

My specific issues are:

• How do I get a client to read my configuration? chef-solo seems like the best start (I don't want to run an OpenID server or Merb)
• How do I configure Apache to serve Django? I already know how to do this via regular server configuration, but I figure an example Chef recipe would be a good start;