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 install nginx with brew:

/usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

location / { 
    root   html;  # **means /usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.8.0/html and it soft linked to /usr/local/var/www**
    index  index.html;
}