<div dir="ltr">I'm new to nginx myself, but I'm guessing because you're not using the package manager to install nginx.  The install location in configured by the package.  Following the build steps in your link...<div>

<br></div><div><div>sed -e "s|%%PREFIX%%|/usr/local/nginx|" \</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre">         </span>-e "s|%%PID_PATH%%|/usr/local/nginx/logs/nginx.pid|" \</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre">           </span>-e "s|%%CONF_PATH%%|/usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf|" \</div>

<div><span class="" style="white-space:pre">            </span>-e "s|%%ERROR_LOG_PATH%%|/usr/local/nginx/logs/error.log|" \</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre">             </span>< man/nginx.8 > objs/nginx.8</div>

<div>make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/nginx-1.4.4'</div></div><div><br></div><div>Do you see something in /usr/local/nginx?  If not, try searching directly for the nginx.conf file.  </div></div><div class="gmail_extra">

<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 8:46 AM, jack linkers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jacklinkers@gmail.com" target="_blank">jacklinkers@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:15px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:23.799999237060547px;margin-top:0px!important">


Hello,</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:23.799999237060547px">I'm new to linux and webservers, but I have a brain and C# background.<br>


I installed ngx_pagespeed with nginx on a fresh ubuntu 13.10 following this tutorial :<a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/build_ngx_pagespeed_from_source" style="color:rgb(65,131,196);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/build_ngx_pagespeed_from_source</a><br>


I installed everything under root directory, successfully builded the package and started nginx :</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:23.799999237060547px">


root@xxxxx:~# service nginx configtest<br>nginx: the configuration file /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf syntax is ok<br>nginx: configuration file /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf test is successful</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:23.799999237060547px">


root@xxxxx:~# curl -I -p <a href="http://localhost" target="_blank">http://localhost</a>|grep X-Page-Speed<br>% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current<br>Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed<br>0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0<br>


X-Page-Speed: 1.7.30.3-3721</p><p style="margin:15px 0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:23.799999237060547px">I have no nginx folder under /etc, therefore I can't edit /etc/nginx/sites-available/file_to_edit</p>


<p style="margin:15px 0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:23.799999237060547px">I believe this folder comes with the package apt-get install nginx by default<br>


But how do I edit my .vhost from source build please ?</p><p style="margin-top:15px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:23.799999237060547px;margin-bottom:0px!important">


Thanks !</p></div>
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