diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 41214b5da..7018c76a1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,26 +1,25 @@
 to prepare a new host:
 
 ```
-sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
-sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:nginx/stable
 sudo apt-get update
-sudo apt-get install -y git python-virtualenv python-dev phantomjs libjpeg8 libjpeg62-dev libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev libevent-dev
-sudo apt-get install -y nginx-full
+sudo apt-get install -y git python-virtualenv python-dev phantomjs libjpeg8 libjpeg62-dev libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev libevent-dev gdebi-core
 ```
 
 check out the code:
 
 ```
 git clone https://bitbucket.org/yackob03/quay.git
+cd quay
 virtualenv --distribute venv
 source venv/bin/activate
 pip install -r requirements.txt
+sudo gdebi --n binary_dependencies/*.deb
 ```
 
 running:
 
 ```
-sudo mkdir -p /mnt/nginx/ && sudo nginx -c `pwd`/nginx.conf
+sudo mkdir -p /mnt/nginx/ && sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -c `pwd`/nginx.conf
 STACK=prod gunicorn -c gunicorn_config.py application:application
 ```
 
diff --git a/binary_dependencies/nginx_1.4.2-nobuffer-1_amd64.deb b/binary_dependencies/nginx_1.4.2-nobuffer-1_amd64.deb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7f3119b61
Binary files /dev/null and b/binary_dependencies/nginx_1.4.2-nobuffer-1_amd64.deb differ
diff --git a/nginx-staging.conf b/nginx-staging.conf
index 71085488c..c6927609e 100644
--- a/nginx-staging.conf
+++ b/nginx-staging.conf
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ events {
 
 http {
     types_hash_max_size 2048;
-    include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
+    include /usr/local/nginx/conf/mime.types.default;
 
     default_type application/octet-stream;
     access_log /mnt/nginx/nginx.access.log combined;
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ http {
             proxy_redirect off;
             proxy_buffering off;
 
+            proxy_request_buffering off;
+            proxy_set_header Transfer-Encoding $http_transfer_encoding;
+
             proxy_pass   http://app_server;
             proxy_read_timeout 2000;
             proxy_temp_path /mnt/nginx/proxy_temp 1 2;
diff --git a/nginx.conf b/nginx.conf
index 5b2d88f1d..53cd3c9f8 100644
--- a/nginx.conf
+++ b/nginx.conf
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 worker_processes 8;
 
 user nobody nogroup;
-pid /tmp/nginx.pid;
-error_log /tmp/nginx.error.log;
+pid /mnt/nginx/nginx.pid;
+error_log /mnt/nginx/nginx.error.log;
 
 events {
     worker_connections 1024;
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ events {
 
 http {
     types_hash_max_size 2048;
-    include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
+    include /usr/local/nginx/conf/mime.types.default;
 
     default_type application/octet-stream;
-    access_log /tmp/nginx.access.log combined;
+    access_log /mnt/nginx/nginx.access.log combined;
     sendfile on;
 
     gzip on;
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ http {
             proxy_redirect off;
             proxy_buffering off;
 
+            proxy_request_buffering off;
+            proxy_set_header Transfer-Encoding $http_transfer_encoding;
+
             proxy_pass   http://app_server;
             proxy_read_timeout 2000;
             proxy_temp_path /mnt/nginx/proxy_temp 1 2;