How to force file download in the browser, nginx server

Question

I currently have 2 image locations and they may the formats (jpg,jpeg,png,gif)

i.domain.com/simage.jpg thumbnail
i.domain.com/image.jpg high quality
i.domain         


        

Answer 1

I have been trying to get this functionality into my own nginx server.

I have a folder on server that I would like to have open for anyone who knows the path.

To do that I added a /file/ location into my nginx config file.

server {
   listen 80;
   server_name example.com;

   location /file/ {
       alias /var/openStuff/file/;
       add_header Content-disposition "attachment";
   }
}

Any request to example.com/file/x will go to /var/openStuff/file and look for x and force the browser to download the file

This will also work if the path is /file/stuff/things.txt and will serve it from /var/openStuff/file/stuff/things.txt