I am making transition from apache to nginx, and i can not get the alias to serve images. Reading nginx documentation, diving in google and what not have not yielded any acceptable results for me ;(
The images is located C:/xampp/htdocs/content/XYZ/thumbn/image.jpg
the XYZ part is dynamic and changes.
Nginx is set up to serve content from root C:/nginx/public_html/domain.dev/
In the apache i had simply made Alias /CDN "C:\xampp\htdocs\content"
So that way when ever i request www.domain.dev/CDN/XYZ/thumbn/image.jpg i would get the image from the alias directory.
So im trying to replicate the same in nginx
location /CDN {
alias C:/xampp/htdocs/content;
autoindex on; # just there to see if it works.
}
Unfortunately when i access the image www.domain.dev/CDN/XYZ/thumbn/image.jpg i get 404. In the Nginx logs i see following record :
2017/07/04 16:43:32 [error] 10532#6488: *4 CreateFile() "C:/nginx/public_html/domain.dev/CDN/XYZ/thumbn/two.jpg" failed (3: The system cannot find the path specified), client: 127.0.0.1, server: www.domain.dev, request: "GET /CDN/XYZ/thumbn/two.jpg HTTP/1.1", host: "www.domain.dev"
it is how ever listing the directory contents.
Now if i change the location block to this
location ^~ /CDN/ {
alias C:/xampp/htdocs/content/;
}
I get the same error in log, only way i managed to get it working (but not in the way i need) was when i use this location block
location ^~ /CDN/ {
alias C:/xampp/htdocs/content/XYZ/thumbn/;
}
Then it is showing the image, but the url for the image is different and not valid for my project.
Now the question: how do i serve only images from multiple static directories under same alias? the images are located in following structure
C:/xampp/htdocs/content/one/thumbn/image.jpg
C:/xampp/htdocs/content/two/thumbn/cats.jpg
C:/xampp/htdocs/content/three/thumbn/dogs.jpg
C:/xampp/htdocs/content/another_random_direcotry/thumbn/random.jpg
And they should be accessed by URL as follows
www.domain.dev/CDN/one/thumbn/image.jpg
www.domain.dev/CDN/two/thumbn/cats.jpg
www.domain.dev/CDN/three/thumbn/dogs.jpg
www.domain.dev/CDN/another_random_direcotry/thumbn/random.jpg
Is this even possible with Nginx? so how do i achieve this? Is regex required in this occasion?
full config file here
