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.

tip

If filenames in your local filesystem may contain ?, you may want to set IMGPROXY_SOURCE_URL_QUERY_SEPARATOR to another string that is not used in filenames or set it to blank to disable query string extraction.

Example

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

IMGPROXY_LOCAL_FILESYSTEM_ROOT=/path/to/project/images imgproxy

Then, use the path inside this directory as the source URL:

local:///logos/imgproxy.png

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

http://imgproxy.example.com/insecure/rs:fit:300:200/plain/local:///logos/imgproxy.png@jpg