Nginx displaying blank page, doesn't error

[Eric Griffith]

So I'm attempting to move my OwnCloud instance from Apache to Nginx
because I heard it was better on low-spec machines (the box is
basically a recycled desktop from like 2004; P4 + 1GB of RAM )

I've always run OwnCloud out of a home directory for ease of use with
samba and non-root privs. The tutorial I followed had me place it back
in /srv/http and it worked fine there; now I'm trying to figure out
why when I try to configure it back to /home, it DOESNT work.

The working config:

user http;

worker_processes  1;

#pid        logs/nginx.pid;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    #gzip  on;

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name localhost;

  location / {
    root /srv/http/owncloud;
    index index.html index.php;
  }

  location ~ \.php$ {
    root /srv/http/owncloud;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /srv/http/owncloud/$fastcgi_script_name;
    include fastcgi_params;
  }
}

}



In that setup; its set to run via /srv/http/owncloud, under the user
http. And it works fine, displays the webpage no problem. (Complains
about not having permission to the database, but thats cuz its running
as http, and the database is set for public)

Below all I attempted to change was make it run via
/home/public/www/owncloud instead of /srv/http/owncloud, and under the
user public, group users.


user public users;

worker_processes  1;

#pid        logs/nginx.pid;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    #gzip  on;

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name localhost;

  location / {
    root /home/public/www/owncloud;
    index index.html index.php;
  }

  location ~ \.php$ {
    root /home/public/www/owncloud;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
/home/public/www/owncloud/$fastcgi_script_name;
    include fastcgi_params;
  }
}

}


Using this config file, when i give the server's IP (192.168.0.101)
all I get is a blank page. No error messages, no warnings, nothing in
the log files. Just a blank page. if I give i192.168.0.101/index.php,
nothing changes. Anyone got any ideas as to what may be happening?
I've been staring at config files, and wiki's for the last 3hrs so it
may just need a fresh set of eyes.