How can I update the nginx config directly in discourse/docker ..?

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inside the web template file, I found the instructions where it update the nginx config file template (replace statements) ..
Isn’t there away to add a whole new section to nginx config ???

/uploads folder in discourse/shared is accessible from nginx .. I want to add a new folder /photos ..
is there a direct way (discourse recommended way)

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Can you explain why you want to do that?

“Photos” can in any case be uploaded to Discourse. Image upload and optimisation is built into Discourse already.

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Maybe I have mentioned ther wrong example .. what I’m trying to figure out is .. how can I reach the origianl nginx config and add a whoe section inside whether adding a new mapping for a folder or anything else .. is that doable ? or it’s just not recommended ?

I can install an external nginx server and make it redirect all links to the docker nginx and do my stuff ..

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You might find a similar technique to edit the config in this old advice works for you:

(taken from a prior version of this wiki post: Set up Let’s Encrypt with multiple domains / redirects)

"It’s pretty simple really, add something like the following to your app.yml hooks section:

Step 2 - discourse.conf

In addition to step 1 there is a change needed for nginx to correctly redirect http to https for anything other than DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME

    - replace:
        filename: "/etc/nginx/conf.d/discourse.conf"
        from: /return 301 https.+/
        to: |
          return 301 https://$host$request_uri;

We also need to remove the additional rewrite that web.ssl.template.yml adds since it forces only the DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME and now we have others!

    - replace:
        filename: "/etc/nginx/conf.d/discourse.conf"
        from: /gzip on;[^\}]+\}/m
        to: |
          gzip on;
          add_header Strict-Transport-Security 'max-age=31536000'; # remember the certificate for a year and automatically connect to HTTPS for this domain
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Yes I found these instructions inside the template files ..
Isn;t there an instruction to append a new section ? instead of find-replace ??

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You are going to have to get creative, I suspect.

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Why not tell us why you need this extra folder? It’s possible that someone else has had a similar need, but that the assumed solution isn’t the only way to achieve it.

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I said it was a bad example .. I can manage any extra folder with different solutions .. no issues so far ..
Yet, I want to be able to add a whole new section in the nginx config .. I’m just curios how to do it if I had to do it ..

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Any chance you could pattern match as I proposed, the match being the pattern at the end of the file, then replace the pattern with the same but with your changes added onto the end?

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I thought so ..
I was wondering maybe there is a mahic field for newly appended section .. defined for this purpose ..
never mind .. I think I can manage based on your suggestion