NGINX

Configuration⚑

Serve static files⚑

Either

location /static/ {
    root /var/www/app/;
}

or

location /static/ {
    alias /var/www/app/static/;
}

The difference is that with alias the location part gets dropped from the original URL so http://host/static/somefile would access /var/www/app/static/somefile instead of /var/www/app/static/somefile/somefile.

Reverse proxy⚑

In the vhost file, add

location /something/ {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000/;  # note the trailing slash here, it matters!
}

Disable showing nginx's version in the error pages⚑

server_tokens off;

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