Docroot is: /usr/local/var/www

The default port has been set in /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf to 8080 so that nginx can run without sudo.

nginx will load all files in /usr/local/etc/nginx/servers/.

To have launchd start nginx now and restart at login: brew services start nginx Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can just run: nginx ==> Summary ? /usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.10.1: 7 files, 972.2K