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

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.