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 server on my local machine and I want to put NGINX in front of it so that static content will be served from NGINX and rest all by Tomcat/JBoss. My Tomcat/JBoss application is running on http://localhost:8081/Test my NGINX configuration worked properly but it is not able to load css/js/jpg file. Here is my war strcuture wehere static contents are

Test.war

TEST   |   |--->Resources   |       |------->CSS   |       |         |----> style.css   |       |   |       |-------->Images   |                  |----> a.jpg   |                  |----> b.jpg   |      |--->WEB-INF   |        |----->Web.xml   |        |----->spring-servlet.xml   |   |--->JSP          |---->login.jsp 

I think the problem is because of absolute path, so should I copy resources folder and put it in some folder in NGINX and configure my NGINX to pick file from its own directory rather going to Tomcat/JBoss? I am new so I dont have any idea of doing this can anyone pls help me in this. This is my conf file for NGINX(windows)

server {         listen 80;         server_name localhost;          #charset koi8-r;          #access_log  logs/host.access.log  main;          location / {              proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8081/Test/;         } 

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/;     } } 

Answer 2

Try

server {     listen 80;     server_name localhost;      location ~* \.(css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)$ {         expires 168h;     }      location / {         proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8081/Test/;     } } 

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How to test

In your CLI run ab -c 20 -n 1000 https://your-site/any-file

You will see Time taken for tests decrease drastically.