= How build rpm and src.rpm from spec file: * make = How commit changes to git repo 1. git commit -a 2. git push = Pack with you own passenger You can build RPM with nginx with your own version passenger. Only thing you need is change ree_dir and passenger version in nginx-passenger.spec and edit nginx.conf after install (or update nginx-passenger-conf.patch) Enjoy passenger without apache! = About tools-nginx nginx+passenger - is a part of our global project sliceconfig ( http://github.com/fs/sliceconfig ). Sliceconfig is a very useful scripts which allow quick and easy setup new server with mysql, passenger, and apache or nginx. It also installed vsftpd, iptables and so on, but you better look at sliceconfig on github project page