I also ran into a similar issue and the problem was that the location needs to be put before the additional config files are loaded. Here’s what I ended up with:
server {
server_name _;
return 302 $scheme://local.dev$request_uri;
}
server {
server_name ~^(.*)\.local\.dev$ local.dev;
root /app/public/;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
# Directives to send expires headers and turn off 404 error logging.
location ~* \.(js|css|png|svg|jpe?g|gif|ico)$ {
expires 24h;
log_not_found off;
try_files $uri $uri/ @production;
}
location @production {
resolver 8.8.8.8;
proxy_pass http://example.com/$uri;
}
include do-not-modify/*.conf;
}