By samoshi
I know how to setup nginx in Linux. In FreeBsd I thought it’d exactly the same, except maybe a location of the config file. In Linux it’s /etc/nginx/sites-available/default, in FreeBsd /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
However, according to a tutorial here, in FreeBsd the config is also quite different: in Linux I’d have 2 sections of “server” for http and https. In FreeBsd there has to be “user” on the top level and number of workers. In other things which are pretty different. Not just paths, but the structure and sections.
Is that really so and they’re indeed different?
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Hi @samoshi
Like @CrypticDesigns says, the configuration is not different, but you’re referencing two different config files.
On most Linux, the main Nginx config is /etc/nginx/nginx.conf. On most BSD it’s /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf.
I don’t have access to a BSD right now, but on Linux the server block configuration is located in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ (which is normally a symlink to /etc/nginx/sites-available/. My guess would be that BSD has the same setup, so that would be /usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-enabled.
@hansen thx. On Linux I use " /etc/nginx/sites-available/default" for the config of my website, what is it on FreeBsd?
oh, wait, I’ll check if it’s “/usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default” later.
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