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Use Nginx to Serve Static Files

Explore how to configure Nginx to efficiently serve static files and act as a reverse proxy for your Beego application. Understand how to set up server blocks, handle caching, and forward dynamic requests to optimize your web app deployment.

Introduction

Nginx is a powerful, high-performance web server that can efficiently handle the serving of static files and act as a reverse proxy for our Beego application. This lesson will guide you through setting up Nginx to serve as the front end for a Beego application and handle static files directly.

Prerequisites

Before we proceed with integrating Nginx with our Beego application, let’s make sure that we have met a few prerequisites:

  • A server with Nginx installed

  • A Beego application running on the same server or a different server

  • Knowledge of the directory where our Beego application’s static files are stored

Configuring Nginx

We can create or edit an Nginx ...