How to configure static website using Nginx with MinIO ?

nginx-minio-static.md

How to configure static website using Nginx with MinIO ?

1. Install nginx

2. Install minio

3. Install mc client

4. Create a bucket:

$ mc mb myminio/static
Bucket created successfully ‘myminio/static’.

5. Make bucket public to host/access static content.

$ mc anonymous download myminio/static
Access permission for ‘myminio/static’ is set to ‘download’

6. Upload a sample static HTML site to minio bucket, in my case i used example: http://www.oswd.org/user/profile/id/12362/

$ mc cp -r terrafirma/ myminio/static
...ma/readme.txt:  39.37 KB / 39.37 KB ┃▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓┃ 100.00% 31.94 KB/s 1s

Note: this is how my bucket content appears to me currently.

$ mc ls myminio/static
[2017-03-22 18:20:52 IST] 4.7KiB default.css
[2017-03-22 18:20:54 IST] 5.4KiB index.html
[2017-03-22 18:20:54 IST]   612B readme.txt
[2017-03-22 18:24:03 IST]     0B images/

7. Configure Nginx as proxy to serve static pages from public bucket name static from Minio.

Remove default configuration and replace it with the below. Please change as per your local setup.

$ cat /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default 
server {
 listen 80;
 server_name localhost;
 location / {
   rewrite ^/$ /static/index.html break;
   proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
   proxy_pass http://localhost:9000/static/;
 }
}

$ sudo service nginx reload

8. Open your browser and type http://localhost

Hi @harshavardhana,

The error page of minio will be served as default; do you know about how to specific a file to be a custom error page (like 404).

add this:

proxy_intercept_errors on;
error_page      400 401 402 403 404 500 501 502 503 504 /static/yourerrorpage.html;

you may also replace /static/errorpage.html by a @namedlocation and use a specific location to handle those.

There is now also an officially supported Nginx example with S3 backend upstream available at:

• Using NGINX as an Object Storage Gateway - NGINX
• nginx-s3-gateway/docs/getting_started.md at master · nginxinc/nginx-s3-gateway

is it possible to perform caching on nginx for such use cases?

If I want to host a React app in MINio or S3, do I need to manually handle SSL/TLS if I'm redirecting a custom domain to the app location bucket in the object storage using DNS records?
I'm wondering if serving through object storage is a legitimate way to host the app?

also, can you explain from the example where you are using nginx?

PS:I don't have any prior experience with S3/MINio.

Minio does not support to host applications from the bucket, which is needed for clean separation of the security context for storing cookies, here by using different domains for your Minio and your App. Use the Nginx S3 Gateway, which works great in conjunction with Minio.