How can I load static content using NGINX? - php

Question

I'm struggling trying to load static contents on my page using NGINX, and below is my current configuration. My goal is to make my page load faster that's why I want to load the static content through NGINX, but that I notice the loading time of my page is the same.
Configuration
File Path : etc/nginx/default
server {
listen 80 default_server;
server_name default;
root /home/forge/site/public;
location / {
proxy_pass http://43.35.49.160/;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
# Media: images, icons, video, audio, HTC
location ~* \.(?:jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|cur|gz|svg|svgz|mp4|ogg|ogv|webm|htc)$ {
expires 1M;
access_log off;
add_header Cache-Control "public";
}
# CSS and Javascript
location ~* \.(?:css|js)$ {
expires 1y;
access_log off;
add_header Cache-Control "public";
}
# cache.appcache, your document html and data
location ~* \.(?:manifest|appcache|html?|xml|json)$ {
expires -1;
access_log logs/static.log; # I don't usually include a static log
}
# Feed
location ~* \.(?:rss|atom)$ {
expires 1h;
add_header Cache-Control "public";
}
#include folder/file-name.conf;
}
cURL TEST
curl -X GET -I http://45.33.69.160/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.6.3
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: no-cache
Date: Sat, 09 May 2015 15:09:02 GMT
Set-Cookie: XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IkVNZ205RjhuNWI2aUtEOUxRbjJSdUE9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiN2RtSlJVZUZ6ZFpWNUNETElZOTNuK1ZzQW5Lcmw5UTVKVmo1REFRT2w0cVJoS3IxUitaOWNKYkh5NERrQXZ5VXpjbmNkSlZ0NTFwXC9XNGVxQ0xVYXlBPT0iLCJtYWMiOiI4Yjk4NjI1YjdjMDgxMzJiOTk4MzIxNmUzOTMxM2JiNDY2OTc4ZTZkNzI4Y2IxNjZlYmViNTAyYmZhY2ZlYjYzIn0%3D; expires=Sat, 09-May-2015 17:09:02 GMT; Max-Age=7200; path=/
Set-Cookie: laravel_session=eyJpdiI6Ik5zKzRcLzBEWE5mUjVhUlwvVE9GeWk3Zz09IiwidmFsdWUiOiJCT0pqaWFFQlhCdlJNTGlMZEV3dlg0K2RjTEVrY1dpNU5TbzB6NFBnMzU5Q2J6dzV5S25GR2pERVpKY2taYndOMG1ZRFcxUUZqQmFrUEREKzdCaFltZz09IiwibWFjIjoiMmJhYjBmNmMzMWQwNTIwMTFjMGFiZGJkY2MyNWRiYzAzMzU3OGU4MDliZGFlZWQzNzQ3MTNmOTcyYzY0NjMyNiJ9; expires=Sat, 09-May-2015 17:09:02 GMT; Max-Age=7200; path=/; httponly
Benchmark TEST
I tried to load one of my file css/bootstrap.min.css
ab -c 20 -n 1000 http://45.33.69.160/css/bootstrap.min.css
Result:
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1638069 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/
Benchmarking 45.33.69.160 (be patient)
Completed 100 requests
Completed 200 requests
Completed 300 requests
Completed 400 requests
Completed 500 requests
Completed 600 requests
Completed 700 requests
Completed 800 requests
Completed 900 requests
Completed 1000 requests
Finished 1000 requests
Server Software: nginx/1.6.3
Server Hostname: 45.33.69.160
Server Port: 80
Document Path: /css/bootstrap.min.css
Document Length: 78358 bytes
Concurrency Level: 20
Time taken for tests: 0.239 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Failed requests: 0
Total transferred: 78593000 bytes
HTML transferred: 78358000 bytes
Requests per second: 4184.42 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 4.780 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 0.239 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 321157.98 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 2 0.7 2 3
Processing: 1 3 0.8 3 5
Waiting: 0 1 0.8 1 4
Total: 3 5 0.7 5 7
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 5
66% 5
75% 5
80% 5
90% 6
95% 6
98% 6
99% 7
100% 7 (longest request)
Note: Time taken for tests: 0.239 seconds
The loading time of the content seem to be the same with/without my static content configuration. Isn't it suppose to be faster ?
For some reason, the configuration doesn't seem to be set at all.
Can someone please point out what I did wrong here ?
Suggestions or Feedbacks will be much appreciated !