Preferred way to send programmatically selected files

kloplop321 · 2017-11-14T12:48:19+00:00

On 2/17/18 12:37 PM, Yichun Zhang (agentzh) wrote: Hi Thibault, Seems like this can easily be done by a Lua (opm) module library instead? It does not have...

Preferred way to send programmatically selected files

kloplop321

Hello,

Is there a preferred way to send a file from a specific path? That is, the lua script figures out the path, maybe even from a database lookup, and sends it to the user. I'd rather utilize nginx's strength of sending static content efficiently. These files are not something I want to load into lua memory if it can be avoided.

My current method sets up a public location with an alias, and lua then uses ngx.exec to do an "internal redirect" to that file.

For example:

ngx.exec("/super-secret-folder-please-dont-look" .. path)

And in nginx configs:

location /super-secret-folder-please-dont-look {

alias /home/protected/resources/here;

}

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Is there a better way that does not involve an otherwise accessible (when known) secret location?

Thank you,

hamish.forbes

add the 'internal;' directive to your secret folder location.

nginx.org/r/internal

On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 04:48:19 UTC, Levi Schuck wrote:

Hello,

Is there a preferred way to send a file from a specific path? That is, the lua script figures out the path, maybe even from a database lookup, and sends it to the user. I'd rather utilize nginx's strength of sending static content efficiently. These files are not something I want to load into lua memory if it can be avoided.

My current method sets up a public location with an alias, and lua then uses ngx.exec to do an "internal redirect" to that file.

For example:

ngx.exec("/super-secret-folder-please-dont-look" .. path)

And in nginx configs:

location /super-secret-folder-please-dont-look {

alias /home/protected/resources/here;
}

---

Is there a better way that does not involve an otherwise accessible (when known) secret location?

Thank you,