Nginx not picking up site in sites-enabled

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After over 10 hours of research I have not figured out why this doesn t work  I am trying to move my localhost to my sites-enabled folder which is in  etc nginx sites-enabled default   It IS a symlink from the sites-available folder  When using the following configuration I get an  unable to connect  using localhost 8080 as my address  nginx conf   usr local nginx conf nginx conf    user  www-data  worker processes  2   events       worker connections  1024      http       include       mime types      default type  application octet-stream       sendfile        on       keepalive timeout  65       include  etc nginx sites-enabled         sites-available   etc nginx sites-available default    server     listen   8080    root  home myusername myown customdirectory    index index php index html index htm    server name localhost       location             try files  uri  uri   index html             location  doc            alias  usr share doc           autoindex on          allow 127 0 0 1          allow   1          deny all              error page 404  404 html       error page 500 502 503 504  50x html      location    50x html           root  usr share nginx www             location     php            fastcgi split path info       php                 fastcgi pass unix  var run php5-fpm sock          fastcgi index index php          include fastcgi params             location      ht           deny all            I can get this working if I put the relevant info from sites available to the nginx conf  I just can t figure out why it doesn t work this way   Thanks

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I had the same problem  It was because I had accidentally used a relative path with the symbolic link   Are you sure you used full paths  e g    ln -s  etc nginx sites-available example com conf  etc nginx sites-enabled example com conf

User · Answer

Changing from    include  etc nginx sites-enabled       to   include  etc nginx sites-enabled         fixed my issue

User · Answer

Include sites-available default in sites-enabled default  It requires only one line   In sites-enabled default  new config version     It seems that the include path is relative to the file that included it  include sites-available default    See the include documentation     I believe that certain versions of nginx allows including linking to other files purely by having a single line with the relative path to the included file   At least that s what it looked like in some  inherited  config files I ve been using  until a new nginx version broke them    In sites-enabled default  old config version     It seems that the include path is relative to the current file     sites-available default

[nginx] Nginx not picking up site in sites-enabled?

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