What is the order of the config file for NGINX

Question

I have the following config files and locations:

etc/ngnix/nginix.conf
var/etc/nginx/sites-available/myproject
etc/ngnix/conf.d/default.conf
etc/ngnix/conf.d/web.conf

I'm confused regarding each conf file role, rules, when to use one or another, are they loaded one after another, or just one, are directives overwriting ?

Answer 1

The nginx configuration file is called nginx.conf and on most systems is located at etc/nginx/nginx.conf.

nginx.conf may optionally contain include statements to read parts of the configuration from other files. See this document for more. Read your nginx.conf file to identify which files and directories are sourced and in which context and which order.

Some distributions are delivered with an nginx.conf file that sources additional files from directories such as /conf.d/ and /sites-enabled/.

There is also a convention on some distributions to symlink files between /sites-available/ and /sites-enabled/.

The nginx -T command (uppercase T) is useful to list the entire configuration across all the included files.