proxying nginx Express - 404 on static files

Question

Static files of expressjs app perfectly working when I browse the site from my server ip:port, but when the app serves from nginx, static file gives 404 . Here is my nginx c

Answer 1

Although express.js has built in static file handling through some connect middleware, you should never use it. Nginx can do a much better job of handling static files and can prevent requests for non-dynamic content from clogging node processes. here is an example of doing this:

http {
    ...
    server {
        ...
        location ~ ^/(images/|img/|javascript/|js/|css/|stylesheets/|flash/|media/|static/|robots.txt|humans.txt|favicon.ico) {
          root /home/ubuntu/expressapp/public;
          access_log off;
          expires max;
        }
        ...
    }
}