nginx config for external assets on local

apache.conf

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteBase /
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.test$
  RewriteRule ^wp-content/uploads/(.*)$ https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/$1 [NC,L]
</IfModule>

site.conf

upstream php {
  {{#each fastcgi_servers}}
  server {{this}};
  {{/each}}
}

server {
	listen {{port}};
    root   "{{root}}";

    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    #
    # Generic restrictions for things like PHP files in uploads
    #
	include includes/restrictions.conf;

    #
	# Gzip rules
	#
	include includes/gzip.conf;

    #
	# WordPress Rules
	#
    {{#unless site.multiSite}}
    include includes/wordpress-single.conf;
    {{else}}
    include includes/wordpress-multi.conf;
    {{/unless}}

	#
	# Forward 404's to WordPress
	#
	error_page 404 = @wperror;
	location @wperror {
		rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
	}

    #
	# Static file rules
	#
	location ~* \.(?:css|js)$ {
		access_log        off;
		log_not_found     off;
		add_header        Cache-Control "no-cache, public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
	}

	location ~* \.(?:jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|xml)$ {
			access_log        off;
			log_not_found     off;
			expires           5m;
			add_header        Cache-Control "public";
			try_files         $uri $uri/ @production;
	}

	location ~* \.(?:eot|woff|woff2|ttf|svg|otf) {
			access_log        off;
			log_not_found     off;

			expires           5m;
			add_header        Cache-Control "public";

			# allow CORS requests
			add_header        Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
			try_files         $uri $uri/ @production;
	}

	location @production {
			resolver          8.8.8.8;
			proxy_pass        https://example.com/$uri;
	}

    #
    # PHP-FPM
    #
	location ~ \.php$ {
		try_files $uri =404;

		fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;

		fastcgi_param   QUERY_STRING            $query_string;
		fastcgi_param   REQUEST_METHOD          $request_method;
		fastcgi_param   CONTENT_TYPE            $content_type;
		fastcgi_param   CONTENT_LENGTH          $content_length;

		fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME         $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
		fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_NAME             $fastcgi_script_name;
		fastcgi_param   PATH_INFO               $fastcgi_path_info;
		fastcgi_param   PATH_TRANSLATED         $document_root$fastcgi_path_info;
		fastcgi_param   REQUEST_URI             $request_uri;
		fastcgi_param   DOCUMENT_URI            $document_uri;
		fastcgi_param   DOCUMENT_ROOT           $document_root;
		fastcgi_param   SERVER_PROTOCOL         $server_protocol;

		fastcgi_param   GATEWAY_INTERFACE       CGI/1.1;
		fastcgi_param   SERVER_SOFTWARE         nginx/$nginx_version;

		fastcgi_param   REMOTE_ADDR             $remote_addr;
		fastcgi_param   REMOTE_PORT             $remote_port;
		fastcgi_param   SERVER_ADDR             $server_addr;
		fastcgi_param   SERVER_PORT             $server_port;
		fastcgi_param   SERVER_NAME             $host;

		fastcgi_param   HTTPS                   $fastcgi_https;

		fastcgi_param   REDIRECT_STATUS         200;

		fastcgi_index index.php;
		fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

		fastcgi_pass php;
		fastcgi_buffer_size      64k;
		fastcgi_buffers          32 32k;
		fastcgi_read_timeout	 1200s;

		proxy_buffer_size        64k;
		proxy_buffers            32 32k;
		proxy_busy_buffers_size  256k;
	}
}