Why doesn't nginx understand symbolic links?

Question

Nginx

Hello everyone, I ran into a problem, there is a shared folder in the ubuntu server, it is located in /media/sf_web/ to which I create a symbolic link:
ln -s /media/sf_web/test.loc /home/nik/web
In the nginx hosts, the path to the root is:
root /home/nik/web/test.loc/www
But when I try to log in from the browser, it gives 404.
I forgot to mention the folder itself is shared folder from a real OS, nginx itself is located on a virtual machine (vitrualbox),
Please tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Read error.log - for sure there is no access to some folder.