One of my big interests is self-hosting. The actual implementation of the homelab changes and evolves over the years, but since I started 15 years ago, I never thought about dropping it. I have diverse reasons for that, but privacy and control over our family data remain the most prominent ones.
WriteFreely, which I self-host for this blog, cannot natively serve images. It is designed so that you combine it with a photo serving platform like e.g. snap.as.
I found the solution for this problem by using NGINX and Nextcloud:
# Serve images
location /images/ {
alias /home/nc_data/Kemal/files/Public/;
autoindex off;
access_log off;
expires 30d;
add_header Cache-Control "public";
}
Hope this helps someone else also.
Keep on hacking!