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Nginx Question

Posted April 23, 2014 2.9k views
I setup a VPS running the Ghost application using the pre-made offering. How can I setup Nginx to serve up a plain http directory for images and misc files that aren't part of the Ghost blog? Everything I do results in a Ghost 404 page not found error.
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nahtnam April 23, 2014
You could try setting up a PHP server with tasksel and create an image folder and serv files through there. https://gist.github.com/nahtnam/8092251 Im not sure it would work though.
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asb April 23, 2014
Edit it the file "/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf" and add a new location block so that it looks like: 


server {

    listen 80;

    server_name my-ghost-blog.com ;



    client_max_body_size 10M;



    location / {

            proxy_pass http://localhost:2368/;

            proxy_set_header Host $host;

            proxy_buffering off;

    }



    location /files {

            root /var/www;

    }

}


Then create a directory named "/var/www/files" Now any files that you put in that directory will be available at: http://yourdomain.com/files/yourfile.ext
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nathanmace April 23, 2014
Thanks, that worked perfectly!
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