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NGINX Files and Directories

/etc/nginx​

Default configuration root for the NGINX server.

  • /etc/nginx/nginx.conf - Default configuration entry point used by the NGINX service. Sets up worker processes, tuning, logging, loading dynamic modules and references to other NIGNX configuration files.

  • /etc/nginx/conf.d/ - Directory that contains the default HTTP server configuration file. Files in this directory ending in .conf are included in the top-level http block from within the /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file. The best practice is to utulize include statements and organize your configuration in this way to keep your configuration files concise.

  • /var/log/nginx - The /var/log/nginx directory is the default log location for NGINX and includes an access.log containing an entry for each request served by NGINX and an error.log.