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 If desired, you could even change the port on which Spothole runs from 8080 to a plain 80, in which case your
 `proxy_pass` statements could drop the `:8080` suffix. Since Spothole is in a container, it can serve HTTP on port 80
 if desired, because it doesn't conflict with the host system.
+
+### Restoring the static files bypass
+
+If you would still like to bypass Spothole's web server for the static files, and serve them with nginx, you can
+do. The easiest way is to run another nginx container to serve the files, so your Spothole `compose.yaml` becomes:
+
+```yaml
+services:
+  spothole:
+    container_name: spothole
+    build:
+      context: https://git.ianrenton.com/ian/spothole.git#main
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    networks:
+      - docker-network
+    volumes:
+      - ./config.yml:/app/config.yml
+      - ./cache:/app/cache
+
+  spothole-static-nginx:
+    container_name: spothole-static-nginx
+    build:
+      context: https://git.ianrenton.com/ian/spothole.git#main
+      dockerfile_inline: |
+        FROM nginx:latest
+        COPY static /usr/share/nginx/html
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    networks:
+      - docker-network
+
+networks:
+  docker-network:
+    external: true
+```
+
+Then you can re-add the block that handles the `/static` path in your nginx reverse proxy config, but this time
+point it at the new container rather than at a filesystem path:
+
+```nginx
+    # Load static assets from the spothole-static-nginx container
+    location /static/ {
+        proxy_pass http://spothole-static-nginx/;
+        expires 1h;
+        add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600, must-revalidate";
+    }
+```
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