# Is it always necessary to use another webserver to deliver static files or is traefik v2 also able to do that?

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**Category:** Traefik v2\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [April 3, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/is-it-always-necessary-to-use-another-webserver-to-deliver-static-files-or-is-traefik-v2-also-able-to-do-that/5287 "2020-04-03T18:05:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![alexanderadam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@alexanderadam](https://community.traefik.io/u/alexanderadam)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/is-it-always-necessary-to-use-another-webserver-to-deliver-static-files-or-is-traefik-v2-also-able-to-do-that/5287/1 "2020-04-03T18:05:32Z")

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Is it always necessary to use another web server to deliver static files or is traefik v2 also able to do that?

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**Author:** ![ldez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.traefik.io/ldez/32/5_2.png) [@ldez](https://community.traefik.io/u/ldez)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 7:22pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/is-it-always-necessary-to-use-another-webserver-to-deliver-static-files-or-is-traefik-v2-also-able-to-do-that/5287/2 "2020-04-03T19:22:21Z")

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Hello,

Traefik is still a reverse proxy and not a web server.

So you must use a container, which contains a web server with your files.