minio/docs/minio-server-configuration-files-guide.md

Minio Server configuration files Guide

In this document we will walk through the configuration files of Minio Server.

Minio Server configuration directory

Minio Server configurations are stored in file name .minio. It's a hidden file which resides on user's home directory.

This how the structure of the directory looks like:

$ tree ~/.minio/
/Users/supernova/.minio/
├── certs
├── config.json
└── config.json.old

1 directory, 2 files

Files and directories.

certs directory

certs directory stores key & cert information, which are needed to run Minio in HTTPS. You can read more on running Minio with HTTPS with Let's Encrypt cert with Concert here

config.json

config.json is the configuration file for Minio, it gets generated after you install and start Minio.

$ cat config.json
{
	"version": "6",
	"credential": {
		"accessKey": "YI7S1CKXB76RGOGT6R8W",
		"secretKey": "FJ9PWUVNXGPfiI72WMRFepN3LsFgW3MjsxSALroV"
	},
	"region": "us-east-1",
	"logger": {
		"console": {
			"enable": true,
			"level": "fatal"
		},
		"file": {
			"enable": false,
			"fileName": "",
			"level": "error"
		},
		"syslog": {
			"enable": false,
			"address": "",
			"level": "debug"
		}
	},
	"notify": {
		"amqp": {
			"1": {
				"enable": false,
				"url": "",
				"exchange": "",
				"routingKey": "",
				"exchangeType": "",
				"mandatory": false,
				"immediate": false,
				"durable": false,
				"internal": false,
				"noWait": false,
				"autoDeleted": false
			}
		},
		"elasticsearch": {
			"1": {
				"enable": false,
				"url": "",
				"index": ""
			}
		},
		"redis": {
			"1": {
				"enable": false,
				"address": "",
				"password": "",
				"key": ""
			}
		}
	}
}

version : Represents version number of current configuration file.

credential : Represents authentication credentials for the server, value is automatically generated upon first server start.

region : Represents deployment region for the server, value defaults to us-east-1.

logger : Represents various logging types supported for server error logs, console logger is enabled by default.

notify: Represents various notification types supported. These notification types should be configured prior to using bucket

config.json.old

This file keeps previous config file version details.

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