Creating public access to minio storage

Question

I am running minio in a docker container and I want files that are uploaded to be accessible by the public. I have tried with nginx however that is just a reverse proxy. The problem is that minio has a access key and a secret so if I setup nginx as a reverse proxy I still need to login.

I want to make it possible to download files through nginx or apache. Is there a way to make files/buckets within minio publicly accessible without having to login so that I can create direct links to the file?

Answer 1

To set the default policy for unauthenticated users, the command is mc policy set download minio_alias/bucketname

Source: https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-client-complete-guide.html

For an example of using nginx for hosting the files, here's a github gist: How to configure static website using Nginx with MinIO?

Answer 2

# list default hosts after install: 
mc config host ls

# remove all hosts: mc config host rm {hostName}
mc config host rm local

# add your host: mc config host add {hostName} {url} {apiKey} {apiSecret}
mc config host add local http://127.0.0.1:9000 ClientIdASSDSD ClientSecretASASASdsasdasdasdasd

# create bucket: mc mb {host}/{bucket}
mc mb local/mybucket

# change bucket policy: mc policy {policy} {host}/{bucket}
mc policy set public local/mybucket