How to allow access to whole folder with X-Accel-Redirect

Question

How to allow access to whole folder with X-Accel-Redirect

i divided my website into a public and a private area. All static files will be served by the nginx. Nodejs only check the credentitals and set the X-Accel-Redirect-Header on success. The problem is, if i set the header like:

res.setHeader('X-Accel-Redirect', '/protected/');

I get only access to the /protected/index.html not the subfolders with css, images ... Here is my nginx configuration:

location /protected {
  internal;
  access_log off;
  log_not_found off;
  expires max;
}

Is it possible to set a whole folder with subfolders in X-Accel-Redirect-Header and not only the index.html?

node.js
nginx

Answer 1

You'd have to set a header directing nginx to the specific resource that you wanted to serve up. For instance:

res.setHeader("X-Accel-Redirect", "/protected/images/smile.jpeg");

Or whatever is appropriate, based on the request.