Hi
I am a complete beginner and know a little about nginx. I am migrating from apache. when I was using apache I used symlinks and configured apache to access directories outside root. I created a symlink with the following command

ln -s /home/username/downloads /var/rutorrent/downloads

and the I added this bit of code to httpd.conf :

<Directory /var/rutorrent/downloads>
Options FollowSymLinks Indexes
AllowOverride none
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>


my root directory was "/var/rutorrent"

so when I entered http://serverip/downloads, I could access "/home/username/downloads" which was outside root directory.

now I switched to nginx and I have no idea how I should do the same in nginx.

could you please help me configure nginx.conf so i can access download directory?


Thanks in advance
Regards