Node/Express Cannot Open CSS or JS Files

Question

I once installed node and express via npm in my Windows laptop. I put my node_modules folder in a same directory as my app.js . Everything works fine including some attempt serving static files.

app.use('/static', express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));

I can play with this directory, even with index.html (auto-default page if I open /static/somedir ) and its style.css .

Later, I tried to move it to my linux vps (node installed) to see how is it look like, it was proxied with nginx.

All my view works fine, but my .css , and .js extension files always return 404 .

Answer 1

I edited my /sites-available/default config in nginx to take over static files

server {
    listen 80;

    server_name mysite;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://myip:myport;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
    }
}

solution found on https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-node-js-application-for-production-on-ubuntu-14-04