NGinx Default public www location?
If installing on Ubuntu using apt-get, try /usr/share/nginx/www. EDIT: On more recent versions the path has changed to: /usr/share/nginx/html 2019 EDIT: Might try in /var/www/html/index.nginx-debian.html too.
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Nginx — static file serving confusion with root & alias
There is a very important difference between the root and the alias directives. This difference exists in the way the path specified in the root or the alias is processed. root the location part is appended to root part final path = root + location alias the location part is replaced by the alias part … Read more