# Public assets configuration
Public assets are static files (e.g. images, video, CSS files, etc.) that you want to make accessible to the outside world.
Because an API may need to serve static assets, every new Strapi project includes by default a folder named /public
. Any file located in this directory is accessible if the request's path doesn't match any other defined route and if it matches a public file name (e.g. an image named company-logo.png
in ./public/
is accessible through /company-logo.png
URL).
💡 TIP
index.html
files are served if the request corresponds to a folder name (/pictures
url will try to serve public/pictures/index.html
file).
✋ CAUTION
The dotfiles are not exposed. It means that every file name that starts with .
, such as .htaccess
or .gitignore
, are not served.