Re: [gentoo-user] How to get nginx serving pages?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday 07 Nov 2016 12:17:05 Poison BL. wrote:

> From the configuration in the aforementioned guide:
>
> server {
>                 listen 127.0.0.1;
>                 server_name localhost;
>
>                 access_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.access_log main;
>                 error_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.error_log info;
>
>                 root /var/www/localhost/htdocs;
>         }
>
> This specifically instructs nginx to listen only on 127.0.0.1, so even
> connections from the same machine to its hostname or external IP
> address will not hit nginx there. You'll need to change the 'listen'
> value to determine what connections it should be answering. See the
> nginx documetation on that here:
>
> http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#listen
>
> I would suspect for your internal network use-case, you'll want:
>
>                 listen *:80;

Yes, but for two things:

1.  With links on the same host I specified http://localhost, and localhost 
resolves to 127.0.0.1.

2.  I made the change you recommended and it didn't help.

-- 
Regards
Peter