🔒 Uploading files to nginx

[plush pebble]

I need to upload my mp4 files that my bot generates to nginx and my domain so there downloadable from domain, How do i start?

[winter sluice]

@plush pebble

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[obtuse roost]

With Python?

[cosmic sundial]

nginx != python

https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/modules/upload/

[plush pebble]

Yes

[plush pebble]

Will try

[cosmic sundial]

Is python on the client or server?

[plush pebble]

Everythings running off my vm, just need to upload from results folder once my bot sends the signal that its done generating

[cosmic sundial]

So with a python script uploading the files, you would probably use the requests module.

[plush pebble]

Ok, Its using python to generate the mp4 then in the final video file it sends a print

[cosmic sundial]

ex: ```py
import requests

requests.post("https://example.com/upload", files={
"file1": ("filename.txt", b"file contents goes here")
})

[plush pebble]

How would I setup the part so my domain would have that?

[plush pebble]

would this tell me?

[cosmic sundial]

You have a host?

it's your hostname

[plush pebble]

Its a ipv4

I would like to use my domain tho

[cosmic sundial]

you can use an ip

[plush pebble]

but if I send the user there video file link wouldnt it be the ip and not a domain?

[cosmic sundial]

"http://10.0.0.1/upload"

[plush pebble]

So what url would the file be saved to?

[plush pebble]

"http://10.0.0.1/filename"?

[cosmic sundial]

upload is the endpoint. You specify the filename in the files argument.

[cosmic sundial]

The filename in this is filename.txt

[plush pebble]

yes but how would you download it?

I need a shareable link that people can download the file from that link

[cosmic sundial]

you'd have to add the upload folder as a static folder in nginx

You may consider making a flask endpoint for it instead of using nginx

[hot holly]

On the server side I think you will need to write a little Python WSGI application. You can't just "upload" a file to a web server -- something on the server has to catch the HTTP requests and store them as a file.

Read up on Python Flask applications. You need one on the server side.

[winter sluice]

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