how to make NGINX serve static content like .js, .css, .html?

Question

Recently I have started using NGINX, I found that we can use it for reverse proxy, serving static content from itself which can reduce load time. I have a Tomcat/JBoss serve

Answer 1

You can add location with regexp:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name localhost;

    location ~* \.(js|jpg|png|css)$ {
        root path/to/tomcat/document/root/Test/;
        expires 30d;
    }

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8081/Test/;
    }
}