Serving and uploading static files with nginx:
Assuming we have nginx installed in system and our nginx configuration file resides at /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/testconf.conf
create a directory called data that will store all our images that we wish to serve.
add these in testconf.conf
server{
listen *:9999;
location /images/ {
root /data;
}
}now if we make a request to localhost:9999/images/a.jpg
we will get the image file a.jpg located in /data/images.
importat part to note above is root directive. Any request coming as localhost:9999/images/... matches the above location block,
therefore nginx will strip the part after localhost:9999/images ( as we have defined /images/ in location ) and append it after the path defined as root.