Dear all,

I currently have setupped my nginx to be able to serve static files. The snippets is as such:

server {
        listen   80;
        server_name  72.14.185.215;

        location / {
                root   /var/www/nginx-default;
                index  index.html index.htm;
        }

        location /media {
                root /var/www/media;
#               autoindex on;
#               allow all;
        }
}

Now when I access from the browser using this address http://72.14.185.215/media , I get a 404 message. I already created the /var/www/media folder. Have I missed on something here?

Thanks in advance

did you try switching the two location statements and putting "/media" first ?
chances are the "/" location is used first, it evaluates to
"/var/www/nginx-default" + "media" --> "/var/www/nginx-default/media" (which doesn't exist i assume)
and returns the 404

It's also redirecting to http://localhost/media/

Just pointing that out. :\