<h1 id="private-images">Private Images<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#private-images"></a></h1>
<p>All my images are stored in my assets folder in Dropobx.</p>
<pre><code>$HOME/Dropbox/assets/images
</code></pre>
<p>I serve them via localhost using nginx.</p>
<p>I can access any image using the following url: <code>http://localhost:$NGINX_PORT/img/&#x3C;image-name></code></p>
<p>Benefits of this system - it keeps the backend flexible. If I decide to drop dropbox (which I'm increasingly tempted to do due to the agressive upselling, I can do so without breaking my links. Also, many markdown editors are unable to render images that are based on absolute paths.</p>
<p>A future project I have in mind is to combine this with a VPN like <a href="https://tailscale.com/">tailscale</a> so that I can access images on the go as well. </p>
<h2 id="setup-instructions">Setup Instructions<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#setup-instructions"></a></h2>
<ul>
<li>these instructions are for mac and true as of 2022-05-28</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>install nginx
<pre><code>brew install nginx
</code></pre>
</li>
<li>symlink image folder
<pre><code>cd /opt/homebrew/var/www
ln -s {PATH_TO_WHERE_YOUR_IMAGES_ARE} img
</code></pre>
</li>
<li>optional: change the port 
<ul>
<li>if you don't want to use the default (<code>8080</code>), you can change it in <code>/opt/homebrew/etc/nginx/nginx.conf</code></li>
<li>afterwards, reload nginx</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>brew services reload nginx
</code></pre>
</li>
</ol>
<hr>
<strong>Backlinks</strong>
<ul>
<li><a href="/notes/3091usnju7yj36zyvos20gh"><input type="checkbox" disabled class="task-before task-status" checked>Where to Host Private Images (kevin-public)</a></li>
</ul>

Private Images

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## Welcome to my [Digital Garden](https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden) 🌱

I'm **Kevin**, founder of [Dendron](https://dendron.so/) ([YCW21](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29176158)) - an open-source, local-first, knowledge base for developers. Our goal is to help devs access and structure all the information they have ever come across using plain text, markdown, and version control. 


As a point of reference, I made Dendron because I wanted a better way of managing my own corpus of **30K+ notes**. Dendron is the result of a decade of experimenting with different tools and systems. 

The end result is [[A Hierarchy First Approach to Note Taking|dendron://kevin-blog/blog.pkm.2020-08-24-a-hierarchy-first-approach-to-note-taking]], a system that helped me instantly access any information I've noted before. 

You are reading my personal site which is managed and published using Dendron. You can [clone this site locally](https://github.com/kevinslin/kevin-public-vault) or [make your own](https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/4ushYTDoX0TYQ1FDtGQSg). 


## Navigating the Garden

The advantage of a garden is that it is non-linear and can offer much more context than a linear blog. This is also its greatest downside as it can be hard to know where to begin. If you want to ease into this experience and want a linear feed of blog posts, I would recommend starting off with the [[Blog|dendron://kevin-blog/blog]] hierarchy. 

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