How to browse by web a folder under nginx environnement

It sounds like you’re pretty close. You can set this up with an alias directive in your Nginx configuration:

server {
    listen 80 default_server;

    server_name my-ghost-blog.com;

    root /var/www/ghost;
    index index.html index.htm;

    client_max_body_size 10G;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:2368;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_buffering off;
    }

    location /folder/ {
            alias /var/www/folder/;
            autoindex on;
    }
}

The key thing here for being able to browse through the directory structure is the addition of autoindex on Also, make sure the folder has the correct permissions:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/folder/

Add an index.html and try to access it myurl.tld/folderx/index.html

What do the NGINX error logs have to say ? Could you share your logs ?