Serving files in a directory with nginx

Published: Jul 14, 2011 by Noe Nieto

I love nginx’s simplicity

Today I wanted to publish some files in a directory with nginx and I was surprised how easy it was.

All I needed to do was to create a file in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/newsite and add the following:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name newsite.mysite.com;
    location / {
        root /path/to/folder/with/files;
        autoindex on;
    }
}

Reload nginx and enjoy.