Nginx not picking up site in sites-enabled?

Question

After over 10 hours of research I have not figured out why this doesn\'t work! I am trying to move my localhost to my sites-enabled folder which is in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/d

Answer 1

Include sites-available/default in sites-enabled/default. It requires only one line.

In sites-enabled/default (new config version?):

It seems that the include path is relative to the file that included it

include sites-available/default;

See the include documentation.

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I believe that certain versions of nginx allows including/linking to other files purely by having a single line with the relative path to the included file. (At least that's what it looked like in some "inherited" config files I've been using, until a new nginx version broke them.)

In sites-enabled/default (old config version?):

It seems that the include path is relative to the current file

../sites-available/default

Answer 2

Changing from:

include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*; 

to

include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*.*; 

fixed my issue

Answer 3

I had the same problem. It was because I had accidentally used a relative path with the symbolic link.

Are you sure you used full paths, e.g.:

ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/example.com.conf