By bronzetab
I have a droplet setup with nginx using server blocks to have several virtual hosts, letsencrypt and nodejs running: thanks to the great tutorials. I’m using koa.js for the nodejs webserver and I use react to build the static files. I would like to configure nginx to serve the static files from /var/ww/whatever.com while still proxying all other requests.
The reverse proxy part works, but the static content is not served when I access the site as foo.com/ or foo.com/index or foo.com/index.html. All of the requests are passed to the nodejs process instead.
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location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file
try_files $uri $uri/ ;
}
location ~ {
To
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to proxy
try_files $uri $uri/ @proxy;
}
location @proxy {
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