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

Dump the configuration:

$ nginx -T
...
server {
    ...
    location / {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        ...
    }
    ...
}

What you get might be different since it depends on how your nginx was configured/installed.

References:

• -T option on the man page

• -T option in the help message

Update: There's some confusion on the issue of if/when the -T option was added to nginx. It was documented in the man page by vl-homutov on 2015 June 16, which became part of the v1.9.2 release. It's even mentioned in the release notes. The -T option has been present in every nginx release since, including the one available on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS:

root@23cc8e58640e:/# nginx -h    
nginx version: nginx/1.10.0 (Ubuntu)
Usage: nginx [-?hvVtTq] [-s signal] [-c filename] [-p prefix] [-g directives]

Options:
  -?,-h         : this help
  -v            : show version and exit
  -V            : show version and configure options then exit
  -t            : test configuration and exit
  -T            : test configuration, dump it and exit
  -q            : suppress non-error messages during configuration testing
  -s signal     : send signal to a master process: stop, quit, reopen, reload
  -p prefix     : set prefix path (default: /usr/share/nginx/)
  -c filename   : set configuration file (default: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf)
  -g directives : set global directives out of configuration file