This is a Heroku buildpack—which can also be used with dokku—which serves static files using node.js, express or nginx.
This buildpack has been modified from the original for use with Docker containers that have a www-data user instead of a www user. It also has stricter policies on denying access to certain files and directories—including blocking access to the /conf directory entirely and to the _static.cfg file. It also opts to serve up 404 errors for blocked files/directories rather than 403 errors.
Example usage:
$ echo 'BUILDPACK_URL="https://github.com/dallas/heroku-buildpack-static.git"' > .env
$ echo 'SERVER_TYPE="nginx"' > _static.cfg
$ git remote add production dokku@<your-domain>:<app-name>
$ git push production master
The buildpack will detect your app as Static if it has the file _static.cfg in the root.
For nginx, you can set custom nginx config as described for heroku-buildpack-nginx.
Buildpack reads its configuration from _static.cfg
SERVER_TYPE="[node|express|nginx]"
BUILD_WEB_ASSETS="[true|false]"
To modify this buildpack, fork it on Github. Push up changes to your fork, then
create a test app with --buildpack <your-github-url> and push to it.
For Nginx Serve, buildpack simply creating default nginx configuration for static site and uses heroku-buildpack-nginx to create nginx server.