nginx: [emerg] “server” directive is not allowed here

Question

I have reconfigured nginx but i can\'t get it to restart using the following config:

conf:

server {
listen 80;
server_name www.example.com;
return 30         


        

Answer 1

There might be just a typo anywhere inside a file imported by the config. For example, I made a typo deep inside my config file:

loccation /sense/movies/ {
                  mp4;
        }

(loccation instead of location), and this causes the error:

nginx: [emerg] "server" directive is not allowed here in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/xxx.xx:1