Serving a website and API with Kong Gateway

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# custom_nginx.template
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worker_processes ${{NGINX_WORKER_PROCESSES}}; # can be set by kong.conf
daemon ${{NGINX_DAEMON}};                     # can be set by kong.conf

pid pids/nginx.pid;                      # this setting is mandatory
error_log logs/error.log ${{LOG_LEVEL}}; # can be set by kong.conf
events {}

http {
  # here, we inline the contents of nginx_kong.lua
  charset UTF-8;

  # any contents until Kong's Proxy server block
  ...

  # Kong's Proxy server block
  server {
    server_name kong;

    # any contents until the location / block
    ...

    # here, we declare our custom location serving our website
    # (or API portal) which we can optimize for serving static assets
    location / {
      root /var/www/example.net;
      index index.htm index.html;
      ...
    }

    # Kong's Proxy location / has been changed to /api/v1
    location /api/v1 {
      set $upstream_host nil;
      set $upstream_scheme nil;
      set $upstream_uri nil;

      # Any remaining configuration for the Proxy location
      ...
    }
  }

  # Kong's Admin server block goes below
  # ...
}