serving_local_files.md

Serving local files

imgproxy can be configured to process files from your local filesystem. To use this feature, do the following:

1. Set IMGPROXY_LOCAL_FILESYSTEM_ROOT environment variable to your local images directory path.
2. Use local:///path/to/image.jpg as the source image URL.

Example

Assume you want to process an image that stored locally at /path/to/project/images/logos/evil_martians.png. Run imgproxy with IMGPROXY_LOCAL_FILESYSTEM_ROOT set to your images directory:

$ IMGPROXY_LOCAL_FILESYSTEM_ROOT=/path/to/project/images imgproxy

Then use path inside this directory as the source URL:

local:///logos/evil_martians.png

The URl for resizing this image to fit 300x200 will look like this:

http://imgproxy.example.com/insecure/fit/300/200/no/0/bG9jYWw6Ly8vbG9n/b3MvZXZpbF9tYXJ0/aWFucy5wbmc.jpg