I have a new digital ocean Ubuntu 18.04 machine and I thought I overrode the default html directory for error pages and content as per config attached to /var/www/html but for some reason the index.html ONLY is being pulled from /usr/share/nginx/html. I only figured that out from a nginx -V command and checking directories. Oddly enough the 500 server error page DO come from /var/www/html. Little help here? Can't see why this only works for some content and not all.

In /var/www/html I've got 404.html 40x.html 50x.html FavIcon.ico index.html info.php robots.txt sites.html

Seriously, I'm missing something here. I've got nothing referencing that folder and yet nginx wants to pull files from /usr/share/nginx/html for some reason.

user@Rproxy-ubuntu18:/etc/nginx$ grep "root" -R /etc/nginx/
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf: root /var/www/html;
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:# root /var/www/html;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/server00.conf: root /var/www/html;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/server00.conf: root /var/www/html;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/server03.conf: root /var/www/html;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/server08.conf: root /var/www/html;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/server07.conf: root /var/www/html;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/server05.conf: root /var/www/html;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/server13.conf: root /var/www/html;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/server11.conf: root /var/www/html;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/server06.conf: root /var/www/html;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/server12.conf: root /var/www/html;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/server04.conf: root /var/www/html;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/server09.conf: root /var/www/html;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/server10.conf: root /var/www/html;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/server02.conf: root /var/www/html;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/server01.conf: root /var/www/html;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/server14.conf: root /var/www/html;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/server00.conf.save: root /var/www/html;
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/server00.conf.save: root /var/www/html;

Fixed; https://serverfault.com/questions/969180/nginx-root-path-issue-serving-content-from-wrong-folder