How to cofigure nginx to serve a pdf file?-CodePudding

I´m trying to serve a pdf file by making a configuration in nginx but I get the following error in the page: 404 Not Found

The configuration is like this:

server {

    listen 3002;
    index index.html;
    server_name _;

    location / {

        root /var/www/html/pdf_carpet;
        try_files $uri /index.html = 404;
    }
}

pdf_carpet is where the pdf file is.

What could I do or change to be able to serve a pdf file in nginx?

P.S. It works with html files.

CodePudding user response：

Here is the full location block that should show the PDF file in the browser window under the http://<your_domain_or_IP>:3002/pdf_carpet URL:

location = /pdf_carpet {
    alias /var/www/html/pdf_carpet/file.pdf;
    default_type application/pdf;
    add_header Content-Disposition 'inline';
}

Update

If an URI for accessing the PDF file ends with the slash (or it is a root URI as a special case), the above config would not work since an index file name will be appended to such an URI by the nginx (making location = /path/ { ... } not match the $uri internal nginx variable). For such a case another technique can be used:

location = / {
    root /var/www/html/pdf_carpet;
    rewrite ^ /file.pdf break;
    add_header Content-Disposition 'inline';
}