error in nginx-0.8.42: [emerg]: mkdir() "/usr/local/nginx/uwsgi_temp" failed

[serepo]

In addition to Jean hughes:

I also installed from the ppa in ubuntu lucid, and created
/usr/local/nginx
Then I made the user (& group) www-data, who apparently is created by
the nginx install package, owner of /usr/local/nginx/ with read & write
access.
Start nginx with /etc.init.d/nginx start and youŕe ready to go.

Cheers Sebastiaan

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,102597,124470#msg-124470