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Asked: 2026-06-07T18:04:07+00:00

I want to setup seperate amazon ec2 instance where i store all my images

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I want to setup seperate amazon ec2 instance where i store all my images uploaded via my website by users. I want to be able to show images from this exclusive server. I know how to setup DNS names which would point to this server. But i would like to know how to setup the directories, for example if i refer to an image url as http://images.mydomain.com/images/sample.jpg, then

images.mydomain.com is the server name and

images should be the folder name

now the question is should a webserver be running on this server which is what will serve the images or can i just make images folder public so that it is visible to entire world? How do avoid directory listing?

Pointer to any documentation would be greatly appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes, you will definitly need to run a webserver on the machine. Otherwise it will not bepossible for clients to connect via http/port 80 and view the images in a browser. This has nothing to do with directory listing enabled. Once you have a webserver running, you can disable directory listing in its configuration.

    Install an apache on your server and run it (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/install.html). You then setup what’s called a ‘site’ in its configuration which is pointing to a local directory which will then be the base directory for your server. It could, for example, be /home/apache on a Unix system. There you create your images folder. If your apache is setup correctly you can then access your images via http://images.mydomain.com/images/sample.jpg.

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