Apache and ultimate config for nginx to serve all virtual hosts in the right way
What you do now is sending all the network traffic to 127.0.0.1:8080 without allowing Nginx to serve the static files.
What you should try is the following:
server {listen 80;server_name sky2high.net www.sky2high.net;location / {proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;include /etc/nginx/conf.d/proxy.conf;}location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|tgz|gz|pdf|rar|bz2|exe|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf) {root /folder/to/static/files;expires 90d;}location ~* ^.+\.(css|js)$ {root /folder/to/static/files;expires 30d;}And in proxy.conf you put the following:
proxy_redirect off;proxy_set_header Host $host;proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;client_max_body_size 8m;client_body_buffer_size 256k;proxy_connect_timeout 60;proxy_send_timeout 60;proxy_read_timeout 60;proxy_buffer_size 4k;proxy_buffers 32 256k;proxy_busy_buffers_size 512k;proxy_temp_file_write_size 256k;This should work for you
Just my two cents, in most cases it's not necessary to specify the listen 80.
Source: Nginx common Pitfalls