dificulty finding local static content

[gariac]

Total newb here so apologies in advance. (Silly me, I could have set up
Apache, but I decided to learn something new.)

I have an existing website hosted on a server running apache. I am setting
up a new server, this one being vitrual and bare bones, i.e. nothing
installed but linux. OS is debian. Host company is ovh.com.  I  installed
nginx from the repo rather than complile.

Default file local per the debian installation is the website is found at
/usr/share/nginx/www. The html files are located in the www directory.  The
index.html renders fine. However, I can't follow links in the page. 

I haven't changed the dns yet, but the website can be found by going to
167.114.155.30. External links work fine, as demonstrated on this page:
http://167.114.155.30/archived_playback.html

The "default" file is as follows:
------------
/etc/nginx/sites-available# cat default
# You may add here your
# server {
#       ...
# }
# statements for each of your virtual hosts to this file

##
# You should look at the following URL's in order to grasp a solid
understanding
# of Nginx configuration files in order to fully unleash the power of
Nginx.
# http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls
# http://wiki.nginx.org/QuickStart
# http://wiki.nginx.org/Configuration
#
# Generally, you will want to move this file somewhere, and start with a
clean
# file but keep this around for reference. Or just disable in
sites-enabled.
#
# Please see /usr/share/doc/nginx-doc/examples/ for more detailed examples.
##

server {
         listen   80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
        #listen   [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6

        root /usr/share/nginx/www;
        index index.html index.htm;

        # Make site accessible from http://localhost/
        server_name localhost;

        location / {
                # First attempt to serve request as file, then
                # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
                try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.html =404;
                # Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
                # include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
        }

        location /doc/ {
                alias /usr/share/doc/;
                autoindex on;
                allow 127.0.0.1;
                allow ::1;
                deny all;
        }

        # Only for nginx-naxsi used with nginx-naxsi-ui : process denied
requests
        #location /RequestDenied {
        #       proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;    
        #}

         error_page 404 /404.html;

        # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
        #
         error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
         location = /50x.html {
                root /usr/share/nginx/www;
         }

        # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on
127.0.0.1:9000
        #
        #location ~ \.php$ {
        #       fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        #       # NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
        #
        #       # With php5-cgi alone:
        #       fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        #       # With php5-fpm:
        #       fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        #       fastcgi_index index.php;
        #       include fastcgi_params;
        #}

        # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
        # concurs with nginx's one
        #
        #location ~ /\.ht {
        #       deny all;
        #}
}


# another virtual host using mix of IP-, name-, and port-based
configuration
#
#server {
#       listen 8000;
#       listen somename:8080;
#       server_name somename alias another.alias;
#       root html;
#       index index.html index.htm;
#
#       location / {
#               try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
#       }
#}


# HTTPS server
#
#server {
#       listen 443;
#       server_name localhost;
#
#       root html;
#       index index.html index.htm;
#
#       ssl on;
#       ssl_certificate cert.pem;
#       ssl_certificate_key cert.key;
#
#       ssl_session_timeout 5m;
#
#       ssl_protocols SSLv3 TLSv1;
#       ssl_ciphers
ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv3:+EXP;
#       ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
#
#       location / {
#               try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
#       }
#}
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Thanks in advance.

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,258175,258175#msg-258175