Nginx – how to make NGINX read static files directory when proxy passing

nginxreverse-proxy

Here is my nginx configuration:

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name example.com;
        location /assets {
                root /var/www/frappe/sites/assets;
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }
        location / {
                proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
                proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;

                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
                proxy_redirect off;
        }

}

I want the /assets directory to be handled by NGINX while everything else handled by the python server running on 8000. However, I still get 404 on assets directory.

What am I doing wrong? The assets directory is readable by www-data.

Best Answer

Do you get all 404s on requests to resources under /assets? I suspect you may want to change root to alias in location /assets, because root appends the entire request path to the directory specified, which means nginx is looking for /var/www/frappe/sites/assets/assets/site.css, for instance.

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