Proxying and static files

[epoch1]

Hi 

I have a number of apps running behind nginx and I want to configure nginx
so that is serves static content (js and css files) from the pulic directory
of each app directly rather than proxying these requests, for example:

myserver.com/app1 dynamic requests proxied to hypnotoad (perl server)
listening on http://*:5000, css/js files served directly by Nginx (example
path app1/public/js/script.js)
myserver.com/app2 dynamic requests proxied to hypnotoad (perl server)
listening on http://*:5001, css/js files served directly by Nginx (example
path app2/public/js/script.js)
myserver.com/appN dynamic requests proxied to hypnotoad (perl server)
listening on http://*:5..N, css/js files served directly by Nginx (example
path app3/public/js/script.js)

My conf file:

server {
        listen 80 default_server;
        listen [::]:80 default_server;
     
        # Root for stuff like default index.html
        root /var/www/html;

        location /app1 {
           proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:5000;
           proxy_http_version 1.1;
           proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
           proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
           proxy_set_header Host $host;
           proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
           proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
           proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host:$server_port;
       }

        location /app2 {
           proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:5001;
           proxy_http_version 1.1;
           proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
           proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
           proxy_set_header Host $host;
           proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
           proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
           proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host:$server_port;
       }

         location /appN {...}
}

I've tried something like the following but can't get it work for each app:
location ~* /(images|css|js|files)/ {
    root /home/username/app1/public/;
}

If I request app1/js/script.js for example it goes to
/home/username/app1/public/app1/js/script.js rather than
/home/username/app1/public/js/script.js

How can I get this to work for each app?

Posted at Nginx Forum: https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,272457,272457#msg-272457