Among applying the changes in the other files in this gist, you need to symlink the directory you are serving the app with in the root app's public directory so that NGINX can serve the static files in the sub-app.
For example, if you have an app at /home/coffeencoke/apps/app.coffeencoke.com/current/public
as your root app, and you have the sub app served at http://app.coffeencoke.com/admin, then you need to symlink /home/coffeencoke/apps/admin-app.coffeencoke.com/current/public
to /home/coffeencoke/apps/app.coffeencoke.com/current/public/admin
like so:
ln -s /home/coffeencoke/apps/admin-app.coffeencoke.com/current/public /home/coffeencoke/apps/app.coffeencoke.com/current/public/admin