sudo mkdir /usr/local/nginx/sites-available
...
sudo mkdir /usr/local/nginx/sites-enabled

sudo nano /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf


nginx.conf
user www-data;
worker_processes  1;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}

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

    sendfile        on;

    keepalive_timeout  65;

    gzip  on;

    include /usr/local/nginx/sites-enabled/*;

}


sudo nano /usr/local/nginx/sites-available/default

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  localhost;

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


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

sudo ln -s /usr/local/nginx/sites-available/default /usr/local/nginx/sites-enabled/default


sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart

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