well, doing this work:

location ~ /(app1|app2)/ { root /home/website/beta.ws/webroot/; index index.php index.html index.htm; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8888; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/website/beta.ws/webroot$fastcgi_script_name; include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params; }

but i'm charging to php to serve _all_ the data, dynamic and static one (correct?) is there a way to filter inside the location the php-cgi directives to serve directly the static content and avoid overcharging php? thanks.