Expires .. is there a way to set an expires header for all of jpg, gif, css, js ?

[David]

You're absolutely right.

When using:

location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png)$ {
        access_log   off;
        expires      30d;
}

It ignores my:

        location / {
                index   index.php index.html index.htm;
                root    /home/user/public_html;
        }

and tries to load the image from /usr/local/nginx/html