Mike Shito's questions

I'm trying to serve a node app through nginx, but first attempt to serve static files that may be in a /public folder. I've got that much working -- but when accessing domain.tld/ or the index of static folders, I get a 403; directory index of "/var/www/domain.tld/" is forbidden. All the permissions seem to correct, so I'm rather confused.

This is my server block;

server {
    server_name domain.tld;

    location / {
        root /var/www/domain.tld/public;
        try_files $uri $uri/ @proxy;
        access_log off;
    }

    location @proxy {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;
    }
 }

Accessing any random page (including assumed sub-directories) properly proxies to the node app. In the case of the root / and root of any existing static directory, however, 403.

Any ideas?