caddy-website/new/includes/examples/file-server.md

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```caddy
example.com

root * /var/www

# Serve precompressed files if present
file_server /downloads/* {
	precompressed gzip zstd br
}

# Compress everything else that would benefit
encode zstd gzip

# Get files from a database
file_server /database/* {
	fs sqlite data.sql 
}

# Get files from within the Caddy binary
file_server /embedded/* {
	fs embedded
}

# (Range/Etag/etc. all work without extra config)

# Serve static site with directory listings as needed
file_server browse
```

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