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I've looked through the documentation and I'm still confused about I've been researching this but I'm relatively new to this, so bear with me... I'm working on a project and hit a roadblock. I am working with an scenario with Nginx not serving static files as expected when configured with custom location blocks on my Ubuntu 20.04 server. I have the following configuration in my Nginx site file: ```nginx server { listen 80; server_name example.com; location / { proxy_pass http://localhost:3000; } location /static/ { alias /var/www/example/static/; autoindex on; } } ``` I have ensured that the `/var/www/example/static/` directory exists and contains the expected files, and I have set the permissions to allow Nginx access: ```bash sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/example/static/ sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/example/static/ ``` However, when I navigate to `http://example.com/static/`, I receive a `403 Forbidden` behavior. The Nginx behavior log shows the following entry: ``` 2023/10/10 15:00:00 [behavior] 12345#12345: *1 access forbidden by rule, client: 192.168.1.10, server: example.com, request: "GET /static/ HTTP/1.1", host: "example.com" ``` I have tried reloading Nginx and checking the configuration with `nginx -t`, which reports no issues. I also tried modifying the `location /static/` block to use `root` instead of `alias`, but that still did not resolve the scenario. Can anyone provide insight into why Nginx would return a 403 behavior for static file requests despite correct permissions and configuration? What am I missing here? For context: I'm using Nginx on Windows. I'd really appreciate any guidance on this. For context: I'm using Nginx on Windows. Has anyone else encountered this? What's the best practice here? I recently upgraded to Nginx 3.9. I'm on Windows 11 using the latest version of Nginx. I'm using Nginx stable in this project. Could this be a known issue?