Nginx installation (Ubuntu)

Install

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt install nginx

sudo systemctl status nginx

sudo systemctl start nginx

Change RootDir

change user in nginx.conf

sudo pluma /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

--- user www-data;
+++ user msx;

edit file /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

--- root /var/www/html;
+++ root /home/msx/localhost;

reload Nginx

sudo systemctl restart nginx

PHP FastCGI

Edit file: /etc/php/7.4/fpm/pool.d/www.conf and/or /etc/php/8.2/fpm/pool.d/www.conf

sudo pluma /etc/php/7.4/fpm/pool.d/www.conf

--- user = www-data
--- group = www-data
+++ user = msx
+++ group = msx
--- listen.owner = www-data
--- listen.group = www-data
+++ listen.owner = msx
+++ listen.group = msx

edit /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

# Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
--- index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
+++ index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html index.php;

uncomment and change path to php-fpm

location ~ \.php$ {
	--- #include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
	+++ include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;

	# With php-fpm (or other unix sockets):
	--- #fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php-fpm.sock;
	+++ fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php-fpm.sock;
	# With php-cgi (or other tcp sockets):
	#fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}

Hosts

edit hosts

192.168.33.100 localhost

Test

create dir

mkdir localhost
cd localhost

echo '<p>New root dir <code>/home/msx/localhost</code></p>' > localhost/index.html

check nginx config & restart

sudo nginx -t

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Test it

http://localhost