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App Engine Standard / Expressjs / app.yaml - serving static files - files aren't found?

I have a node/express app on App Engine Standard. If I serve the static files using express.static everything works as expected.

Now, I want to reduce the overhead on the app by serving of static files as described here: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/serving-static-files?tab=node.js#serving_from_your_application

So far, no luck getting this to work. I'm hoping someone can see where I'm going wrong.

The deployed directory structure is:

App Engine:/
  /dist
    /public
      /img
  /node_modules
  /src
...

and I'm trying to serve images so that www.my_app.com/img/picture.jpg doesn't hit express.static with this in my app.yaml:

handlers:
    - url: /img
      static_dir: dist/public/img
    - url: /.*
      script: auto

The images are all returning 404 errors. The handler url is matching correctly because the app engine log has this warning:

Static file referenced by handler not found: /dist/public/img/picture.jpg

The app.yaml docs (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/reference/app-yaml?tab=node.js) state that static_dir is "The path to the directory containing the static files, from the application root directory."

I'm assuming the application root directory would be App Engine:/ but just in case, I also tried defining static_dir as

static_dir: public/img

which also doesn't work.

So, I'm missing something important and it's driving me bananas :(

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