Serve large file with PHP and nginx X-Accel-Redirect

Question

Hi I want user to be able to download PDF file from my server (Windows) configured with nginx PHP. This is my nginx.conf (server block)

http {
    include            


        

Answer 1

Based from recommendation and solution from Danack and some clarification from Carsten, I found that in Windows Serve, we need to set the full path in the alias like this:

location /protected_files {
            internal;
            alias C:/absolute/path/to/project/protected/;
        }

Please note that the extra forward slash is needed (in my case, Windows 7 Pro on development, Windows Server 2008 for deployment). The only issue is now I need to test concurrent downloads to see if server resources is hogging.

I'm new with nginx, since it seem really faster that I switch from Apache. Thanks guy for the enlightenment! I'am glad to be part of Stackoverflow community :)