nginx config for serving nodejs on /app

nginxconfig

server {
  listen        80;
  server_name   example.com;

  root  /path/to/static/files;

  location / {
    try_files   $uri    $uri/   /index.html;
  }

  location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|xml)$ {
    expires     15d;
  }

  location ^~ /app/ {
    proxy_buffering   off;
    rewrite           /app/(.*) /$1 break;
    proxy_pass        http://127.0.0.1:3000;
    proxy_redirect    default;
  }

  gzip                  on;
  gzip_comp_level       2;
  gzip_proxied          any;
  gzip_min_length       1000;
  gzip_disable          "MSIE [1-6]\."
  gzip_types            text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

}