I need to self-host a Web server to serve static image files. When I searched the App catalog ( apps screen->discover ), I did not find any. I searched for “nginx” and “apache” and then just “web server” and didn’t find anything.
Are there really no web servers in the catalog? My needs are simple. A Web server that will serve static image files , e.g. https://imageserve/path/to/image/file .
Am I just not using the correct search terms, or are there really no options? I like using apps from the catalog since it makes managing and updating the apps easy to do from the TrueNAS interface. I’m on TN 25.10.7 if that matters.
I think I’m going to have a go at using either the official nginx image or the linuxserver.io one as a custom app. Looking at the custom app form, I think I’ll still get access to the update feature and ability to control it from the app interface.
No worries. Nginx is serving files, though when I upload them using sftp as root to the .ix-app app volume, I have to change the file perms from 700 to 644 manually or I get an error like this one
open() "image.jpg" failed (13: Permission denied)
I am looking into the storage settings to see if I can change the umask or perhaps add an ACL that will fix this issue. I definitely don’t want to have to manually fix permissions constantly.
Inside the container, nginx is running as user nginx with id 101. I don’t know if I need to allow that user read access via ACL or not.
I installed the static-web-server docker container as a custom app as nothing in the iX App Catalogue met my needs. It does exactly what I want it to do; very little
I use LXC containers for my small webserver requirements. One with Ubuntu server, Apache, MySQL and PHP. On another I also added Wordpress. Good guides available on youtube.
