Serving static file dynamically ...

[Brice Leroy]

Merci Jean-Philippe !
Thank you Jean-Philippe, looks like the perfect solution...  :)


On Mar 24, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Jean-Philippe Moal wrote:

> Brice Leroy a écrit :
>> Hello,
>>
>>  I'm interrested in NGINX to serve static files according to his
>> performance :p. But I will have to serve big static file (video  
>> content
>> in hd) and to protect the access I would like to use a dynamic url  
>> with
>> a key inside like:
>>
>> - http://static/qwertyuiopasdfghjkl which will return the content of
>> file.mov where the key(qwertyuiopasdfghjkl) is associated with the  
>> file
>> in the DB. The user received the content not the file.
>>
>> So a user can share an URL with his contact and stop sharing it  
>> when he
>> want (by removing the record in the DB). I will have to serve  
>> thousand
>> of files at the same time and I want to minimize my server farm. Do  
>> you
>> have any idea ?
>>
>> Thank you :)
>>
> You can use X-Accel-Redirect: http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxXSendfile
>