Minimal directive for Nginx static file sharing

default.conf

   
   # Add following location directive to the default server block located in
   # /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf (if you installed from official NGINX repository) or,
   # /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default (if you installed from Debian or Ubuntu repositories)
   
   # This location directive serve static content from the root 
   location /shared {
    	root           /root/directory/of/files/;
    	autoindex      on;
   }
   
   
   # ...