I'm trying to get nginx working and am having trouble.

I run

[code]/usr/local/sbin/nginx -c /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf[/code]

But when I go to my webserver and try to go to a folder that isn't the index file nginx tries forwarding me to localhost instead of my actual server hostname. For example when I try going to rho.kaffeinated.org/pics it'll start forwarding me to localhost/pics which Firefox then turns to localhost.com/pics. I really can't figure out the problem because files work, it's just folders that don't.

Here is my .conf file

[code]user www-data www-data;
worker_processes 5;

#error_log logs/error.log;
#error_log logs/error.log notice;
#error_log logs/error.log info;

#pid logs/nginx.pid;


events {
worker_connections 1024;
}


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

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

#access_log logs/access.log main;

sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;

#keepalive_timeout 0;
keepalive_timeout 2;

#gzip on;

server {
listen 80;
server_name rho.kaffeinated.org;

#charset koi8-r;

#access_log logs/host.access.log main;

location / {
root /home/ankit/www/aedis;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
autoindex on;
}

#error_page 404 /404.html;

# redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
#
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root html;
}

# proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80
#
#location ~ \.php$ {
# proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1;
#}

# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000

location ~ \.php$ {
root /home/ankit/www/aedis;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/ankit/www/aedis$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}

# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
#location ~ /\.ht {
# deny all;
#}
}


# another virtual host using mix of IP-, name-, and port-based configuration
#
#server {
# listen 8000;
# listen somename:8080;
# server_name somename alias another.alias;

# location / {
# root html;
# index index.html index.htm;
# }
#}


# HTTPS server
#
#server {
# listen 443;
# server_name localhost;

# ssl on;
# ssl_certificate cert.pem;
# ssl_certificate_key cert.key;

# ssl_session_timeout 5m;

# ssl_protocols SSLv2 SSLv3 TLSv1;
# ssl_ciphers ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP;
# ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

# location / {
# root html;
# index index.html index.htm;
# }
#}

}
[/code]

It seems to be working on my end. When I go to http://rho.kaffeinated.org I see your php info. When I go to http://rho.kaffeinated.org/index.html I see what looks like your nginx.conf. And when I go to http://rho.kaffeinated.org/pics/ I see an image hosting/re-sizing script. See attached screen capture.

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Jim Ohlstein

Jim,

Yep, just out of the blue it started working all of a sudden. It wasn't working so I gave up in frustration and walked away from the computer for an hour. When I came back everything was working again.

I'm not entirely sure what happened, but I'm not complaining.