Serve pdf file by location in nginx

Question

How I can to serve the file:

'/webapps/app/static/downloads/privacy_policy.pdf'

by address:

https://my.site.net/privacy/

I try to use location in my nginx, but this not work:

location /privacy/ {
   alias /webapps/app/static/downloads/privacy_policy.pdf;
}

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 05 '17 at 08:53

12

I found solution. I move the pdf file in separate directory "privacy". I set the directory as alias and set I set pdf document as an index file:

location /privacy/ {
   alias /webapps/app/static/downloads/privacy/;
   index privacy_policy.pdf;
}

answered Feb 05 '17 at 08:53

Stan Zeez

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Hi, your solution works, but the file is downloaded without name :( – Ponzio Pilato May 26 '21 at 13:46
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im getting a 403 forbidden using this solution – lopezdp Jun 08 '21 at 19:33
@lopezdp, make sure you have proper file/folder permissions to that location on your server for your nginx process user to read it – speed488 May 28 '22 at 14:51
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@PonzioPilato If you want to specify the file name, you can use a `Content-Disposition` header (either `attachment` to download the file or `inline` to show its contents in the browser window) as shown [here](https://stackoverflow.com/a/67628066/7121513). – Ivan Shatsky May 28 '22 at 15:05

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 28 '22 at 14:56

If you want your URL to remain as /privacy in your browser, you can do something like this:

# Handle the case with trailing slash
location /privacy/ {
    return 302 /privacy;
}
# Alias to PDF file and specify content type for browser to display instead of download
location /privacy {
    alias /webapps/app/static/downloads/privacy_policy.pdf;
    default_type application/pdf;
}

Serve pdf file by location in nginx

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