I was able to resolve this, but I am not sure exactly why. To simplify my post, I removed the code that sets a variable for the base path. That's where the problem is. set $homedir /webspace/mydomain.com; root ${homedir}/www; access_log ${homedir}/log/access.log; The root works, but access_log did not. NGINX would prepend /usr/share/nginx/ to it every time and result in the error from my oby spraguey - Nginx Mailing List - English
I can't seem to get past an error when specifying the log location for a website. In my site.conf for the website... access_log /webspace/mydomain.com/log/access.log; The /webspace/mydomain.com/log folder definitely exists at that location. access.log is not created there. In my error.log file... "/usr/share/nginx//webspace/mydomain.com/log/access.log" failed (2: No such fby spraguey - Nginx Mailing List - English