Serving static from nginx doesnt work due to the following code in
your server configuration:all other requests go to Wordpress
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite . /index.php last;
}
It’s done at server level and tests file existence without
root specified.
Maxim D.
Thanks for your advice Maxim. I ve deleted the above lines and that
works. But it is curious. I use the same rewrite for my rootserver and
in the rootservers environment the same rewrite syntax works without
problems. It is a standalone nginx not proxiing to a apache. Curious!