Hands-On RESTful Web Services with Go - Second Edition

Using server blocks

Server blocks are the actual configuration pieces that tell the server what to serve and on which port to listen. We can define multiple server blocks in the sites-available folder. On Ubuntu, the location will be as follows:

/etc/nginx/sites-available

On Mac OS X, the location will be as follows:

/usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-available

Until we create a symlink from the sites-available to the sites-enabled directory, the configuration has no effect. So, always create a symlink for sites-available to sites-enabled for every new configuration you create.