NGINX Serve all static files and forward others to proxy without / giving 403?

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I'm trying to configure an nginx server to act as a proxy to a node application. What I would like is to have any static files served by nginx and all other paths forwarded on to the Node.js application (inluding the / path).

I've seen the following question/answers: How to serve all existing static files directly with NGINX, but proxy the rest to a backend server.

And as directed, I've configured my site config as follows:

server { server_name subdom.domain.com; listen 80; location / { root /var/www/application/public_html; try_files $uri $uri/ @application; } location @application { proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_pass http://localhost:3000; } }

However when browsing to subdom.domain.com/ I get a 403 Forbidden. I'm guessing this is because nginx cannot find a default document, but I want the default document to be send to proxy, any idea how to do this?

michelem · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-16 13:05:32Z

This should do the work:

 server { server_name subdom.domain.com; listen 80; location / { try_files $uri; proxy_set_header X - Real - IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X - Forwarded - For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_pass http: //localhost:3000; } }

Brief explanation for each URL it finds a file it will serve that (try_file), for everything else it tries the proxy

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