Testing your server

At this point, you have configured several basic directives that affect the core functioning of NGINX. We will perform a simple test to ensure that all is working as expected and that you are ready to further configure and deploy your websites.

Creating a test server

In order to perform simple tests, such as connecting to a server with a web browser, we need to set up a website for NGINX to serve. A test page comes with the default package in the html folder (/usr/local/nginx/html/index.html), and the original nginx.conf is configured to serve this page. Here is the section that we are interested in for now:

http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
    sendfile        on;
    keepalive_timeout  65;
    server {
  ...