Linux Administration Cookbook

How it works...

Our default Nginx configuration file is located at /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and it sets things like the process ID location, along with the user that Nginx will run as ( www-data here), on this Debian installation:

$ head /etc/nginx/nginx.confuser www-data;worker_processes auto;pid /run/nginx.pid;include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf;events {  worker_connections 768;  # multi_accept on;}

Within this file, there also exists the following block of configuration:

  ##  # Virtual Host Configs  ##  include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;  include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;

Note that the top directory is the one we chose to use for our configuration.

When we placed the fenchurch.conf configuration in the /etc/nginx/conf.d/ directory, we were ...