Which prefix does NGINX use for "include"?

Question

While I'm compiling NGINX, I get this message:

nginx path prefix:          "/tmp/app"
nginx binary file:          "/tmp/app/progs/nginx/sbin/nginx"
nginx configuration prefix: "/tmp/app/progs"
nginx configuration file:   "/tmp/app/progs/nginx.conf"

Does NGINX use the path prefix or the configuration prefix for include directives in nginx.conf?

Answer 1

The documentation suggests that it's the "prefix path":

–prefix=path defines a directory that will keep server files. This same directory will also be used for all relative paths set by configure (except for paths to libraries sources) and in the nginx.conf configuration file. It is set to the /usr/local/nginx directory by default.

By contrast:

–conf-path=path sets the name of an nginx.conf configuration file. If needs be, NGINX can always be started with a different configuration file, by specifying it in the command-line parameter -c file. By default the file is named prefix/conf/nginx.conf.

However, this is a documentation bug, and your include paths will in fact be relative to the "config path".