How do you mount a file directory in nginx?

2 years ago
Jackson Davis
1 minute

To mount a file directory in nginx, you need to add a “location” directive in the nginx configuration file to specify the directory to be mounted.

For example, to mount a directory named “files”, you can add the following configuration to the nginx configuration file.

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;

    location /files {
        alias /path/to/files/directory;
    }
}

In the above configuration, when accessing http://example.com/files, nginx will map the request to a file in the /path/to/files/directory.

It is important to note that the `alias` directive preserves the path of the location in the URL. If you want to remove the path of the location, you can use the `root` directive.

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;

    location /files {
        root /path/to/files/directory;
    }
}

Thus, when visiting http://example.com/files, nginx will map the request to the file located in the directory /path/to/files, but the path of the location section will not be retained in the URL.

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