Nginx Question

Posted April 23, 2014

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.

nathanmace

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nathanmace • April 23, 2014

Thanks, that worked perfectly!

Andrew SB • April 23, 2014

Edit it the file “/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf” and add a new location block so that it looks like: <pre> 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; } } </pre> 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

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.