Nginx rewrite localhost to /usr/share/nginx/static - nginx

Question

I want every request for http://localhost/static/ to be directed to /usr/share/nginx/static.
For example, it the user requests http://localhost/static/style/style.css, I want the server to reply with the content of /usr/share/nginx/static/style/style.css.
This is my code (which does not work):
server {
server_name http://localhost/;
rewrite ^/static/(.*) /usr/share/nginx/$1 permanent;
}
And this is the main config file:
worker_processes 1;
events {
worker_connections 200;
}
http {
# Basic Settings
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
# Logging Settings
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
# Include Other Configs
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}
Update: I have a file named mysite.conf like this which does not rewrite the urls as i mentioned in the question.
location /static {
root /usr/share/nginx/static;
}

Answer 1

Replace
server_name http://localhost/;
by
server_name localhost;
Per https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#server_name after the server_name directive you put the server's name, not an URL.
Also rewrite is to do HTTP redirections, so instead of
rewrite ^/static/(.*) /usr/share/nginx/$1 permanent;
use:
location /static {
root /usr/share/nginx;
}
See this other answer for another example: Use nginx to serve static files from subdirectories of a given directory