Static files 404 error

[pedrodevoto]

I noticed several times that when creating a Ubuntu, nginx, PHP 7, Magento 2 (2.1.4) box, requests to static files containing the version number in the URL are not being successful. Found this fix, but don't know if it is appropriate.

[MPietrukowski]

I have similar issue with magento 1, centos, nginx, php5 box. my js files ending on version number (jquery.easing.1.3.js) are not found (404). I've dig around in nginx config and this issue has something to do with
#Rewrite for versioned CSS+JS via filemtime
if I comment below rewrite all files load successfully
#rewrite ^(.+).(\d+).(css|js)$ $1.$3 last;