Skip to main content
The Static preset serves files directly via nginx — ideal for HTML sites, single-page applications, documentation, and landing pages.

​
What’s Included

Pre-installed utilities: curl, wget, vim, htop, unzip.

​
Directory Structure

  • App Root: /home/instapod/app
  • Public Root: /home/instapod/app (same — everything is public)
  • Port: 80 (nginx)
  • nginx config: /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
The app root is the public root on this preset, so anything you upload is served. The one exception is dot-files: /.env, /.git/ and any other path with a dot-segment return 403 on every pod (.well-known/ is exempt). Everything else you put here - a .sql dump, a config.json, a backup/ folder - is a public URL. See .env is not reachable from the web.

​
Deploying Your Site

​
Upload Files

​
SCP

​
Git Clone (via Terminal)

​
Reloading

After updating files, reload nginx to pick up configuration changes:
For static files, nginx serves them directly — no reload is needed for simple HTML/CSS/JS changes. Only reload if you’ve modified the nginx configuration.

​
Single-Page Applications (SPA)

The default nginx config uses try_files $uri $uri/ =404, which returns 404 for routes that don’t match a file. For SPAs with client-side routing (React Router, Vue Router, etc.), you need to redirect all requests to index.html. Connect via SSH or the web terminal and update the nginx config:
This makes routes like /about or /dashboard serve your index.html, letting your JavaScript router handle them.

​
Use Cases

  • Static HTML/CSS/JS websites
  • Single-page applications (React, Vue, Svelte builds)
  • Documentation sites (VitePress, Docusaurus output)
  • Landing pages and marketing sites
  • File hosting