Windows installation - setting root

[Dan Dascalescu]

John Moore <grails at ...> writes:

> You're right about the forward slashes, but it turned out that was not 
> the root of the problem. It seems that the root directory has to be 
> within the nginx directory

Argh, I banged my head on the desk for an hour about this!

Indeed, nginx bases the root directory into the hardcoded path
/cygdrive/c/nginx/
even if you don't have Cygwin installed (I use Kevin Worthington's port).

Someone please fix this, it's extremely annoying.

> I clearly cannot specify an absolute path, it must be relative to and 
> within the nginx directory. I hope I'm mistaken about this.

There is a workaround, though, to use relative directory paths:

    location / {
        root   ../www;
    }

This will get you the root directory set to c:\www, if nginx lives in C:\nginx.

HTH,
Dan Dascalescu