nginx error location directive is not allowed here in etc nginx nginx conf 76

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When i restart the nginx with  sudo service nginx restart   Iam facing with this error   Restarting nginx  nginx   emerg   location  directive is not allowed here in  etc nginx nginx conf 76 nginx  configuration file  etc nginx nginx conf test failed  This is my nginx conf file   user www-data  worker processes 4  pid  var run nginx pid   events       worker connections 768        multi accept on     http                  Basic Settings             sendfile on      tcp nopush on      tcp nodelay on      keepalive timeout 65      types hash max size 2048        server tokens off         server names hash bucket size 64        server name in redirect off       include  etc nginx mime types      default type application octet-stream                Logging Settings             access log  var log nginx access log      error log  var log nginx error log                Gzip Settings             gzip on      gzip disable  msie6          gzip vary on        gzip proxied any        gzip comp level 6        gzip buffers 16 8k        gzip http version 1 1        gzip types text plain text css application json application x-javascript text xml application xml application xml rss text javascript                nginx-naxsi config              Uncomment it if you installed nginx-naxsi              include  etc nginx naxsi core rules                nginx-passenger config              Uncomment it if you installed nginx-passenger              passenger root  usr       passenger ruby  usr bin ruby                Virtual Host Configs             include  etc nginx conf d   conf      include  etc nginx sites-enabled              location              home techcee scrapbook local lib python2 7 site-packages django   init   pyc                mail         See sample authentication script at        http   wiki nginx org ImapAuthenticateWithApachePhpScript          auth http localhost auth php        pop3 capabilities  TOP   USER         imap capabilities  IMAP4rev1   UIDPLUS          server           listen     localhost 110          protocol   pop3          proxy      on           enter code here      server           listen     localhost 143          protocol   imap          proxy      on             What is wrong in this

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The server directive has to be in the http directive  It should not be outside of it   Incase if you need detailed information  refer this

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Since your server already includes the sites-enabled folder   notice the include  etc nginx sites-enabled   line    then you better use that    Create a file inside  etc nginx sites-available and call it whatever you want  I ll call it django since it s a djanog server  sudo touch  etc nginx sites-available django  Then create a symlink that points to it  sudo ln -s  etc nginx sites-available django  etc nginx sites-enabled  Then edit that file with whatever file editor you use  vim or nano or whatever and create the server inside it  server         hostname or ip or multiple separated by spaces     server name localhost example com 192 168 1 1   change to your setting     location             root  home techcee scrapbook local lib python2 7 site-packages django   init   pyc            Restart or reload nginx settings  sudo service nginx reload    Note I believe that your configuration like this probably won t work yet because you need to pass it to a fastcgi server or something  but at least this is how you could create a valid server

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location  directive should be inside a  server  directive  e g   server       listen       8765       location             resolver 8 8 8 8          proxy pass http    http host uri is args args             error page   500 502 503 504   50x html      location    50x html           root   html

[nginx] nginx error:"location" directive is not allowed here in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:76

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