Setup Minio Server on Centos 7 and Proxy Pass Using Nginx

3 min readMay 16, 2020

At present many options for file storage in the cloud like Aws S3, Google Storage and many more. And not so much people have a budget to have cloud service just for save file on cloud. So in this tutorial we will setup minio server on Centos 7 and setup for Nginx for secure connection minio server and your application

First add some user for minio on Centos 7 using

[centos@server~]# useradd -s /sbin/nologin -d /opt/minio minio

And create some folder for minio apps and configuration file

[centos@server~]# mkdir -p /opt/minio/bin

After we create folder, now download minio binary file and put to minio folder the we create earlier

[centos@server~]# wget https://dl.minio.io/server/minio/release/linux-amd64/minio -O /opt/minio/bin/minio

Change permission file so minio binary can be executed

[centos@server~]# chmod +x /opt/minio/bin/minio

Now we create configuration file for minio to make easier configuration

[centos@server~]# vim /opt/minio/minio.conf

On configuration file we put environment such as port, access key and secret key

MINIO_VOLUMES="/var/www/minio_storage/"
MINIO_OPTS="--address :9100"
MINIO_ACCESS_KEY= Somestrong_Access_key
MINIO_SECRET_KEY= Somestrong_Secret_key

After that we create some folder for minio storage file, and make sure the path folder we using same as we put on configuration file (/opt/minio/minio.conf) and change the owner to minio user

[centos@server~]# mkdir -p /var/www/minio_storage/
[centos@server~]# chown -R minio:minio /var/www/minio_storage/

Now we create system file service so minio can running as a service on background

[centos@server~]# vim /etc/systemd/system/minio.service

And put script service on that file like this

[Unit]
Description=Minio
Documentation=https://docs.minio.io
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
AssertFileIsExecutable=/opt/minio/bin/minio
 
[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/opt/minioUser=minio
Group=minioPermissionsStartOnly=true
EnvironmentFile=-/opt/minio/minio.conf
ExecStartPre=/bin/bash -c "[ -n \"${MINIO_VOLUMES}\" ] || echo \"Variable MINIO_VOLUMES not set in /opt/minio/minio.conf\""ExecStart=/opt/minio/bin/minio server $MINIO_OPTS $MINIO_VOLUMESStandardOutput=journal
StandardError=inherit# Specifies the maximum file descriptor number that can be opened by this process
LimitNOFILE=65536# Disable timeout logic and wait until process is stopped
TimeoutStopSec=0# SIGTERM signal is used to stop Minio
KillSignal=SIGTERM
SendSIGKILL=no
SuccessExitStatus=0[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Reload system daemon on Centos 7 using

[centos@server~]# systemctl daemon-reload

Now start and enable minio service using

[centos@server~]# systemctl start minio
[centos@server~]# systemctl enable minio

And that’s way to install and setup minio apps on Centos 7 now we setup configuration on Nginx Webserver

Before we start, make sure you have Nginx Installation and running well on Centos 7

Make configuration file on Nginx folder configuration

[centos@server~]# vim /etc/nginx/conf.d/minio.conf

And this configuration for Nginx proxy pass

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name  minio.domain.com www.minio.domain.com;    #this config will force through ssl / https
    return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;    root /var/www/html;
    index index.html index.php;    access_log /var/log/nginx/minio-access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/minio-error.log;    location / {
      proxy_pass          http://localhost:9100;
      }
   }server {
     listen 443;
     server_name minio.domain.com www.minio.domain.com;
     ssl    on;
        
     #change max size upload file as you want
     client_max_body_size 300M;
        
     ssl_certificate         /path/to/ssl/certificate;
     ssl_certificate_key     /path/to/ssl/certificate_key;     ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:1m;
     ssl_session_timeout  10m;
     ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
     ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;     access_log   /var/log/nginx/minio-access.log;
     error_log    /var/log/nginx/minio-error.log;     root /var/www/html;
     index index.php;     location / {
          proxy_pass          http://localhost:9100;
          proxy_set_header    Host             $host;
          proxy_set_header    X-Client-DN      $ssl_client_s_dn;
          proxy_set_header    X-SSL-Subject    $ssl_client_s_dn;
          proxy_set_header    X-SSL-Issuer     $ssl_client_i_dn;
          proxy_read_timeout 1800;
          proxy_connect_timeout 1800;
          }
}

After that check the configuration file using

[centos@server~]# nginx -t

and restart Nginx for activated configuration

[centos@server~]# systemctl restart nginx

check on browser using domain we setup earlier on nginx configuration

So that the tutorial for setup minio server and proxy pass using Nginx webserver, Hopefully can help anyone for save file on cloud using open source application

Setup Minio Server on Centos 7 and Proxy Pass Using Nginx

Written by Diemas Nakayubi