Express not serving static files in public subdir

Question

I'm having several problems trying to serve static files in public subdirectories with Express and Apache. My working path is the following:

• public
  • css
    • style.css
• app.js

app. js file:

var express = require('express');
var app = express();
app.use('/', express.static(__dirname + '/public'));

If style. css is inside the public folder everything's fine. If I move it into the css directory (changing the relative html tag), this is the error I get:

https://example.com/css/style.css 404 not found

This is the link in the html file

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css">

This is my apache server configuration :

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
    <VirtualHost *:443>
        ServerName example.com
        ServerAlias www.example.com

        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html
        ProxyRequests Off
        ProxyPreserveHost On
        ProxyVia Full
        <Proxy *>
            Require all granted
        </Proxy>

        <Location /*>
            ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:8080
            ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:8080
        </Location>
        <Directory "/var/www/">
            AllowOverride None
            Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
            Require all granted
        </Directory>
    </VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

Could it be a proxy issue?

Answer 1

As I expected was an Apache configuration issue. As soon as I edit the configuration file as shown below, the public directory and its sub-dir "css" were identified correctly.

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName example.com
    ServerAlias www.example.com

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html
    ProxyRequests Off
    ProxyPreserveHost On
    ProxyVia Full
    <Proxy *>
        Require all granted
    </Proxy>
    ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8080/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8080/

    <Directory "/var/www/">
        AllowOverride None
        Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>