NGinx Default public www location?

Question

I have worked with Apache before, so I am aware that the default public web root is typically /var/www/.

I recently started working with nginx, but I ca

Answer 1

On Mac OS X installing nginx with brew makes the default directory:

/usr/local/var/www

So:

root html

means

root /usr/local/var/www/html

There is no html directory so it would have to be created manually.