Some yeas ago, I managed a FreeBSD/Apache website for a losing political campaign. I was subsequently offered MANY low-paying server admin and webmaster jobs by LOTS of losing politicians. I can claim a modest level of expertise in LAMP/XAMP operations.
I am now learning NGINX, which appears to me because of it's emphasis on security. (My new computer is an OpenBSD box.) I started with the Beginners Guide. NGINX runs properly. I suppose I should be grateful for that. But the first exercise in the Guide, Serving Static Content, has me bogged down. As instructed, I took nginx.conf and commented out all the existing servers. I think I put in just what the book ordered:
http {
server {
location / {
root /data/www;
}
location /images/ {
root /data;
}
}
}
I then set up /data/www/ and /data/images. For the html in /data/www, I copied over the index.htm file in /var/www/html - the "Welcome to NGINX" page.
No other web server is running.
For some reason, nginx can't find /data/www. curl localhost produces
<html>
<head><title>404 Not Found</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>404 Not Found</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.14.2</center>
</body>
</html>
If I access the website from another computer on my LAN, I get a 404 error. At least I know nginx is running. After I couldn't find the right file a few times, I cut and pasted the text out of the Beginners Guide, which left me in the exact same place.
Any help is welcome.
