nginx server block configuration not working

@garrettf4df5779a22ac38a787

If you copied their example verbatim, then NGINX is going to pull content from:

/usr/share/nginx/html

This is defined by the root directive in the server block. To point that to your own directory, you will need to change that directive to match your custom directory.

So if you’re using:

server {
    listen  80;
    server_name localhost;

    location / {
        root  /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index  index.html index.htm;
    }

    error_page  500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
        root  /usr/share/nginx/html;
    }
}

You’ll need to change root /usr/share/nginx/html; in the location / block. There are, however, better ways to setup server blocks, but for the purpose of setting up an example, that’s all that you need to do.

Once you save the changes, you’ll need to restart NGINX using:

systemctl reload nginx

or

systemctl restart nginx

If we throw PHP, NodeJS, or another language in to the picture, we need to change things around.