How To Move an Nginx Root to a New Location

On Ubuntu, the Nginx web server typically stores its documents on the root filesystem with the rest of the operating system. However, if you serve multiple websites from the same Nginx instance, for example, putting each site’s document root on its own volume allows you to scale in response to the needs of a specific site or client. In this guide, we’ll move an Nginx document root to a new location.

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