What is the problem with nginx?

Question

linux

nginx.conf

user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf;

events {
        worker_connections 768;
        # multi_accept on;
}

http {

        ##
        # Basic Settings
        ##

        sendfile on;
        tcp_nopush on;
        tcp_nodelay on;
        keepalive_timeout 65;
        types_hash_max_size 2048;
        # server_tokens off;

        # server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
        # server_name_in_redirect off;

        include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
        default_type application/octet-stream;

        ##
        # SSL Settings
        ##

        ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2; # Dropping SSLv3, ref: POODLE
        ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

        ##
        # Logging Settings
        ##
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

        ##
        # Gzip Settings
        ##

        gzip on;

        # gzip_vary on;
        # gzip_proxied any;
        # gzip_comp_level 6;
        # gzip_buffers 16 8k;
        # gzip_http_version 1.1;
        # gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

        ##
        # Virtual Host Configs
        ##
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
        include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
        include /home/adel/Documents/Projects/projname/ngnix_configs/projname.back.conf;
}

projname.back.conf

server {
    listen 80;

    root /home/adel/Documents/Projects/projname/projname.back/build/client/src/;

    access_log  ...

    server_tokens off;
    client_max_body_size 60M;

    location / {
  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
  expires -1;
    }

    location /api {
  proxy_pass http://localhost:8585/api;
  ***
    }

    location /ws {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:7003;
        ***
    }

}

I start the server on port 8585, everything is ok.
When navigating to localhost:80 in the browser,

why isn't the content of root displayed?

Answer 1

Usually you can't run services on ports <1024 without root rights
Run your nginx on port 8080