Nginx is not serving static files using alias and root? - nginx

Question

I have been trying to serve some static files using NGINX server but despite the configurations I haven't been able to get it running. I have tried using alias, root and even regex match - what could be missing?
/home/user/coka/staticfiles/ contains all the files i want to serve but whenever i visit http://127.0.0.1/staticfiles/file.css or http://example.com/staticfiles/file.css it is not showing up.
My configuration is shown below:
server {
listen 443 ssl http2;
listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
server_name example.com;
location /staticfiles/ {
root /home/user/coka/staticfiles/;
access_log /home/user/coka/logs/nginx-static-access.log;
error_log /home/user/coka/logs/nginx-static-error.log;
}
}
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name example.com;
return 301 https://example.com$request_uri;
}
I have been getting error 404.

Answer 1

Can you try the following?
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:4m; # measured in megabytes, not minutes
ssl_buffer_size 4k; # reduced from the default 16k to minimize TTFB
ssl_session_timeout 60m;
ssl_session_tickets off;
ssl_dhparam /etc/ssl/nginx/dhparam.pem; # create with "openssl dhparam -out dhparam.pem 4096"
ssl_ecdh_curve X25519:sect571r1:secp521r1:secp384r1;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers off;
ssl_protocols TLSv1.3 TLSv1.2;
ssl_ciphers ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384;
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/chain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/key.pem;
server {
listen 443 ssl http2;
listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
server_name example.com;
root /home/user/coka;
access_log /home/user/coka/logs/nginx-static-access.log;
error_log /home/user/coka/logs/nginx-static-error.log;
}
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name example.com;
return 301 https://example.com$request_uri;
}