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Nginx as a file server

April 21, 2019 — Jesse Harris

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There are many ways to serve files. Here is a quick note of how I edited the default raspbian nginx conf files to enable a simple directory with browsing to be served from a raspberry pi

~~~

• Install nginx-light

```

sudo apt-get install nginx-light -y

```

• Make sure group other has x permissions all the way up the tree to where content will be served from. Security warning I recommend only doing this on an internally facing pi.

```

sudo chmod o+x /media /media/JesseHD /media/JesseHD/Movies

```

• Edit `/etc/nginx/sites-available/default, uncomment the last server section

```

server {

listen 80;

listen [::]:80;

server_name 192.168.178.88;

root /media/JesseHD/Movies;

autoindex on;

}

```

• Restart nginx

```

sudo systemctl restart nginx

```

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raspberry-pi

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