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

On Mac install nginx with brew:

/usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

location / { 
    root   html;  # **means /usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.8.0/html and it soft linked to /usr/local/var/www**
    index  index.html;
}  

Answer 2

If you need to find out nginx public root folder that was defined at compile time you can just check your access.log file.

1. Open nginx.conf
2. Find the log_format directive
3. The value of the log_format is a template string that is used to write information to the access.log file. You can add $document_root variable to this template string to log default www root location to a file.

Here is an example from the http section of nginx.conf with modified log_format directive, $document_root is added at the beginning of the string:

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

                  ## ADD $document_root HERE ##
        log_format  main  '$document_root $remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                          '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                          '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

        access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

        etc. .......

4. Then backup all configuration files *.conf in conf.d directory and create there configuration file, test.conf with the following lines:

   server{
       listen 80;
       server_name localhost;
   }
   

   5. Add following line to /etc/hosts file: 127.0.0.1 localhost

   6. Reload nginx configuration: nginx -s reload

   7. Send GET request to http://localhost: curl http://localhost

   8. Check the last string of access.log:tail -n 1 /var/log/nginx/access.log

Here is the sample output of this command, where /etc/nginx/html is the default document root defined at compile time :

    /etc/nginx/html 127.0.0.1 - - [15/Mar/2017:17:12:25 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 169 "-" "curl/7.35.0" "-"

Answer 3

If installing on Ubuntu using apt-get, try /usr/share/nginx/www.

EDIT:

On more recent versions the path has changed to: /usr/share/nginx/html

2019 EDIT:

Might try in /var/www/html/index.nginx-debian.html too.

Answer 4

If you are on Ubuntu 14.04 you can find nginx www directory at following path:

yusuf@yusuf-he:/usr/share/nginx/html$ pwd
/usr/share/nginx/html
yusuf@yusuf-he:/usr/share/nginx/html$

Answer 5

For nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu)

/etc/nginx$ cat /etc/nginx/sites-available/default | grep -i root
- root /usr/share/nginx/html;

Answer 6

You can find it in /var/www/ that is default directory for nginx and apache but you can change it. step 1 go to the following folder /etc/nginx/sites-available

step 2 edit default file in that you can find a server block under that there will be line named as root that is what defines the location.