Nginx as a file server

April 21, 2019 — Jesse Harris

FTP, SMB, SSH, HTTP... The list goes on.

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
```

Tags: raspberry-pi, nginx

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Nginx as a file server