NGinx Default public www location?

Question

I have worked with Apache before, so I am aware that the default public web root is typically /var/www/.

I recently started working with nginx, but I ca

Answer 1

For CentOS, Ubuntu and Fedora, the default directory is /usr/share/nginx/html

Answer 2

The default web folder for nginx depends on how you installed it, but normally it's in these locations:

/usr/local/nginx/html
/usr/nginx/html

Answer 3

you can access file config nginx,you can see root /path. in this default of nginx apache at /var/www/html

Answer 4

*default pages web allocated in var/www/html *default configuration server etc/nginx/sites/avaliable/nginx.conf

server {

    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server;

    root /var/www/html;

    index index.html index.php;

    server_name _;

    location /data/ {
        autoindex on;
    }

    location /Maxtor {
        root /media/odroid/;
        autoindex on;

    }

        # This option is important for using PHP.
    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock;
    }
}

*default configuracion server etc/nginx/nginx.conf

content..

user www-data;
worker_processes 8;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf;

events {
    worker_connections 768;
    # multi_accept on;
}

http {

    ##
    # Basic Settings
    ##

    sendfile on;
    tcp_nopush on;
    tcp_nodelay on;
    keepalive_timeout 65;
    types_hash_max_size 2048;
    # server_tokens off;

    # server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
    # server_name_in_redirect off;

    include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type application/octet-stream;

    ##
    # SSL Settings
    ##

    ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2; # Dropping SSLv3, ref: POODLE
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

    ##
    # Logging Settings
    ##

    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

    ##
    # Gzip Settings
    ##

    gzip on;

    # gzip_vary on;
    # gzip_proxied any;
    # gzip_comp_level 6;
    # gzip_buffers 16 8k;
    # gzip_http_version 1.1;
    # gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

    ##
    # Virtual Host Configs
    ##

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}


#mail {
#   # See sample authentication script at:
#   # http://wiki.nginx.org/ImapAuthenticateWithApachePhpScript
# 
#   # auth_http localhost/auth.php;
#   # pop3_capabilities "TOP" "USER";
#   # imap_capabilities "IMAP4rev1" "UIDPLUS";
# 
#   server {
#       listen     localhost:110;
#       protocol   pop3;
#       proxy      on;
#   }
# 
#   server {
#       listen     localhost:143;
#       protocol   imap;
#       proxy      on;
#   }
#}

default access logs with ip clients var/log/nginx/...

Answer 5

The default is related to the prefix option of the configure script when nginx is compiled; here's some strange sample from Debian:

% nginx -V | & tr ' ' "\n" | fgrep -e path -e prefix
--prefix=/etc/nginx
--conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
--error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log
--http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/body
--http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/fastcgi
--http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log
--http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/proxy
--http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/scgi
--http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/uwsgi
--lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock
--pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid

Subsequently, the default value of root is set to the html directory (as per the documentation of the root directive), which happens to be within prefix , as can be verified by looking at the $document_root variable from a simple configuration file:

# printf 'server{listen 4867;return 200 $document_root\\n;}\n' \
    >/etc/nginx/conf.d/so.10674867.conf

# nginx -s reload && curl localhost:4867
/etc/nginx/html

However, evil distributions like Debian seem to modify it quite a bit, to keep you extra entertained:

% fgrep -e root -e include /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
    include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    #include /etc/nginx/naxsi_core.rules;
    #passenger_root /usr;
    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;

% fgrep -e root -e include \
    /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*
/etc/nginx/conf.d/so.10674867.conf:server{listen 4867;return 200 $document_root\n;}
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:   root /usr/share/nginx/www;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:       # include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:   #   root /usr/share/nginx/www;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:   #   include fastcgi_params;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:   # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:#  root html;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:#  root html;

So, on this instance of Debian, you can see that the root is finally set to /usr/share/nginx/www.

But as you saw with the sample server configuration that would serve its $document_root value over http, configuring nginx is simple enough that you can write your own configuration in a matter of a single line or two, specifying the required root to meet your exact needs.

Answer 6

On Mac OS X installing nginx with brew makes the default directory:

/usr/local/var/www

So:

root html

means

root /usr/local/var/www/html

There is no html directory so it would have to be created manually.