By Supergeante
Hi all,
i’ve created trough sftp another folder near my ghost folder in nginx environnment: /var/www/ghost /var/www/folderx
Ghost works find but i don’t find out how to acess the folderx trough http://myurl.tld/folderx
Used to an apache environment i don’t see how to do this under nginx.
Could you help ?
Thx
SPG
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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 ?
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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/
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