# How to check which directive actually delivers the files?

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**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [January 26, 2016, 1:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-check-which-directive-actually-delivers-the-files/243928 "2016-01-26T13:10:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 1:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-check-which-directive-actually-delivers-the-files/243928/1 "2016-01-26T13:10:24Z")

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Hi,

I’ve setup nginx + php-fpm for a typo3.

It looks like this:

server {  
listen 80;  
server\_name the\_server;  
access\_log /home/the\_server/logs/nginx\_access\_log mycustom;  
error\_log /home/the\_server/logs/nginx\_error\_log;  
root /home/the\_server/FTPROOT/htdocs ;  
index index.php;

```
    location = /favicon.ico {
             log_not_found off;
             access_log off;
    }

    location = /robots.txt {
             allow all;
             log_not_found off;
             access_log off;
    }

    # Deny all attempts to access hidden files such as .htaccess,

```

.htpasswd, .DS\_Store (Mac).  
location ~ /. {  
deny all;  
access\_log off;  
log\_not\_found off;  
}

```
 location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) {
     include /usr/local/etc/nginx/fastcgi-includes.conf;
     fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME

```

$document\_root$fastcgi\_script\_name;  
if (!-f $document\_root$fastcgi\_script\_name) {  
return 404;  
}

```
   fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fastcgi/the_server.sock;
   fastcgi_index index.php;
   include fastcgi_params;

```

}  
client\_max\_body\_size 100M;

```
     location ~ /\.(js|css)$ {
             expires 604800s;
     }

     if (!-e $request_filename){
             rewrite ^/(.+)\.(\d+)\.(php|js|css|png|jpg|gif|gzip)$

```

/$1.$3 last;  
}

```
     location ~* ^/fileadmin/(.*/)?_recycler_/ {
             deny all;
     }
     location ~* ^/fileadmin/templates/.*(\.txt|\.ts)$ {
             deny all;
     }
     location ~* ^/typo3conf/ext/[^/]+/Resources/Private/ {
             deny all;
     }
     location ~*

```

^/(typo3/|fileadmin/|typo3conf/|typo3temp/|uploads/|favicon.ico) {  
}

```
     location / {
                     if ($query_string ~ ".+") {
                             return 405;
                     }
                     if ($http_cookie ~

```

‘nc\_staticfilecache|be\_typo\_user|fe\_typo\_user’ ) {  
return 405;  
} # pass POST requests to PHP  
if ($request\_method !~ ^(GET|HEAD)$ ) {  
return 405;  
}  
if ($http\_pragma = ‘no-cache’) {  
return 405;  
}  
if ($http\_cache\_control = ‘no-cache’) {  
return 405;  
}  
error\_page 405 = @nocache;

```
                     try_files

```

/typo3temp/tx\_ncstaticfilecache/${scheme}/$host${request\_uri}index.html  
@nocache;  
}

```
     location @nocache {
                     try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
     }

```

}

However, I’m not sure if nginx actually delivers the static file.  
The reason I’m not so sure is that I have varnish+nginx in front of this  
(on a different host) and varnish reports a “MISS” for what should be  
static deliveries from nginx.

I activated access-logging in the php-fpm pool and it looks like it’s  
actually not working as intended.

So, how can I see what it’s actually trying to do?

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**Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 12:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-check-which-directive-actually-delivers-the-files/243928/2 "2016-01-29T12:40:41Z")

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To server static files from nginx use the below configs inside  
serverblock  
of nginx,

location ~\* .(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico|eot|otf|ttf|woff)$ {  
access\_log off; log\_not\_found off; expires 30d;  
}

and use symbol “|” without quote and extension name to add more static  
file  
or extension types.

Source:

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> **[Re: How to check which directive actually delivers the files?](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,264129,264206#msg-264206)**
>
> Hi, I've setup nginx + php-fpm for a typo3. It looks like this: server { listen 80; server\_name the\_server; access\_log /home/the\_server/logs/nginx\_access\_log mycustom; error\_log /home/the\_server/logs/nginx\_erro