I am trying to install nginx on my Linode server using steps provided in RailsCasts webcast but every time I am getting "500 Internal Server Error" error message after installing nginx. Per web-cast, if should show "Welcome to nginx!" page.

apt-get -y update
apt-get -y install curl git-core python-software-properties

# nginx
add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable
apt-get -y update
apt-get -y install nginx
service nginx start

Ref: http://railscasts.com/episodes/335-deploying-to-a-vps

Any help is much appreciated. Is there any way to look into nginx log file to identify the issue?

Thanks

What do nginx's log files say? It should explain why you are hitting the 500 internal error.

-Tim

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I had the same error and I am not sure what the actual root of this issue is, maybe a missing default index.html file, however, plough on with the rest of that tutorial, it will work fine.

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Cheers,

Simon