What is /home/bitnami/stack/ directory for on Bitnami NGINX Open Source image?

Question

What is /home/bitnami/stack/ directory used for on Bitnami NGINX Open Source image? For example, the documentation says to edit /opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/nginx.conf for the default Nginx config. But then there is a bunch of Nginx configuration hanging out in /home/bitnami/stack/nginx If you make changes in one, it gets updated in the other but they don't appear to be symlinks.

If it makes any difference this is on a VPS created through AWS Lightsail.

Answer 1

The main Nginx configuration file is set in /opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/nginx.conf. All other *.config files that you see loaded, are referenced inside the nginx.conf file.

Take a look at the snippet from the file. Notice the lines that start with include:

include  "/opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/server_blocks/*.conf";

# HTTP Server
server {
    # Port to listen on, can also be set in IP:PORT format
    listen  80;

    include  "/opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/bitnami/*.conf";

    location /status {
        stub_status on;
        access_log   off;
        allow 127.0.0.1;
        deny all;
    }
}