Sample Nginx conf file for HLS streaming

nginx-hls.conf

worker_processes  auto;
events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}

# RTMP configuration
rtmp {
    server {
        listen 1935;
        chunk_size 4000;
        application show {
            live on;
            interleave on;
            hls on;
            hls_path /mnt/hls/;
            hls_fragment 15s;
        }
    }
}

http {
    sendfile off;
    tcp_nopush on;

    directio 512;
    default_type application/octet-stream;

    server {
        listen 8080;

        location /hls {
            # Disable cache
            add_header 'Cache-Control' 'no-cache';

            # CORS setup
            add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*' always;
            add_header 'Access-Control-Expose-Headers' 'Content-Length';

            # allow CORS preflight requests
            if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
                add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
                add_header 'Access-Control-Max-Age' 1728000;
                add_header 'Content-Type' 'text/plain charset=UTF-8';
                add_header 'Content-Length' 0;
                return 204;
            }

            types {
                application/dash+xml mpd;
                application/vnd.apple.mpegurl m3u8;
                video/mp2t ts;
                text/html html;
            }

            root /mnt/;
        }
    }
}