I have the following nginx configuration that I believe -- or at least hope -- serves up my static files, like images ad videos, directly without invoking my dancer app. Can anyone tells me if this is the case or not, or how I can test to see if they are indeed being served directly by NGINX? server { listen 80; server_name mydomain.com; rewrite ^/(.*) https://mydomain.com/$1 permanent; } server { listen 443 ssl; server_name mydomain.com; ssl_certificate /home/starman/mydomain.com.chained.crt; ssl_certificate_key /home/starman/mydomain.com.key; client_max_body_size 20M; location / { # Serve static files directly: if (-f $request_filename) { expires 30d; break; } proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme; proxy_set_header Host $http_host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $http_host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_pass http://localhost:5000; } }