Nodejs reverse proxy for static files not working with nginx - node.js

Question

I'm trying to setup Angular + Nodejs behind Ngnix on Ubuntu.
Everything is working fine for Angular and Nodejs API but I'm not able to serve static files.
Here is my configuration (/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default):
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
}
location /api {
proxy_pass http://localhost:7777;
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;
# preflight requests
if ( $request_method = OPTIONS ) {
add_header "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" *;
add_header "Access-Control-Allow-Credentials" true;
add_header "Access-Control-Allow-Methods" "GET, POST, PUT, HEAD, DELETE, OPTIONS";
add_header "Access-Control-Allow-Headers" "Authorization, Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept";
return 200;
}
}
location /static {
proxy_pass http://localhost:7777;
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;
}
The /api route works fine but /static doesn't.
On local, /static works fine because there is no nginx.
I have following directory structure to serve static files:
public
static
images
css
fonts
https://somewebsite.com/api/read (works fine)
https://localhost:3000/static/images/test.png (works fine)
https://somewebsite.com/static/images/test.png
is not working. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

https://localhost:3000/static/images/test.png (works fine) and https://somewebsite.com/static/images/test.png is as expected. According to your configuration, you are also redirecting /static to port 7777: proxy_pass http://localhost:7777;
Changing:
proxy_pass http://localhost:7777;
to:
proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
should do the trick

Answer 2

I fixed this with following entry:
location /static/ {
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
proxy_pass "http://localhost:7777/static/";
# preflight requests
if ( $request_method = OPTIONS ) {
add_header "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" *;
add_header "Access-Control-Allow-Credentials" true;
add_header "Access-Control-Allow-Methods" "GET, POST, PUT, HEAD, DELETE, OPTIONS";
add_header "Access-Control-Allow-Headers" "Authorization, Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept";
return 200;
}
}