This minimal setup allows you to run nginx using the current folder as the doc-root.
NOTE: python's simplehttpserver may be good enough for you. This is just a nice simple nginx setup.
www/
nginx.conf
chmod +x *.sh
./start.sh
worker_rlimit_nofile 8192;
daemon off;
events {
worker_connections 4096;
}
http {
server {
listen 8080;
server_name localhost;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
access_log nginx-access.log;
error_log nginx-error.log;
location / {
root SOURCE_ROOT/www;
}
}
}
#!/bin/sh
sed "s|SOURCE_ROOT|$(pwd)|" nginx.conf.template > nginx.conf
nginx -c $(pwd)/nginx.conf
echo "**** Access running server at http://localhost:8080 ****"