How to expose an image folder and access them via a route? - laravel

Question

I have a list of flags located at :
/home/bheng/app/public/assets/be/img/flags/
...
-rw-r--r-- 1 robot robot 4655 Apr 29 16:34 tf_64.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 robot robot 3024 Apr 29 16:34 td_64.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 robot robot 5379 Apr 29 16:34 tc_64.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 robot robot 5316 Apr 29 16:34 sz_64.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 robot robot 3486 Apr 29 16:34 sy_64.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 robot robot 4902 Apr 29 16:34 sx_64.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 robot robot 3508 Apr 29 16:34 sv_64.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 robot robot 3986 Apr 29 16:34 st_64.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 robot robot 4290 Apr 29 16:34 ss_64.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 robot robot 3765 Apr 29 16:34 sr_64.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 robot robot 3856 Apr 29 16:34 so_64.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 robot robot 3580 Apr 29 16:34 sn_64.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 robot robot 4959 Apr 29 16:34 sm_64.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 robot robot 3077 Apr 29 16:34 sl_64.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 robot robot 4483 Apr 29 16:34 sk_64.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 robot robot 3517 Apr 29 16:34 sj_64.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 robot robot 3483 Apr 29 16:34 si_64.png
drwxr-xr-x 2 robot robot 12288 Apr 29 16:34 .
┌──[robot#world]──[/home/bheng/app/public/assets/be/img/flags]
└──
I want to load that image when I visit
https://www.bunlongheng.com/flags/*
Ex.
https://www.bunlongheng.com/flags/sn_64.png
I've tried add this line to my nginx
location ^~ /flags/ {
root /home/bheng/app/public/assets/be/img/flags/;
}
I still get 404 on my URL : https://www.bunlongheng.com/flags/sn_64.png
What did missed?
Also
I've tried alias
location /flags/ {
alias /home/bheng/app/public/assets/be/img/flags/;
#root /home/bheng/app/public/assets/be/img/flags/;
}

Answer 1

You need rewrite instead of alias :
location ~ /assets/be/img/flags/(?<filename>.+)$ {
rewrite ^ /flags/$filename last;
}
or another way maybe you should use root:
location ~ /flags/ {
root /assets/be/img/flags/;
}
but both ways need to use php artisan storage:link, because it's must be a public nginx path.