# Config issue

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/config-issue/238433>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [January 9, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/config-issue/238433 "2014-01-09T20:04:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Detlef\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/58f4c7/32.png) [@Detlef\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Detlef_R)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/config-issue/238433/1 "2014-01-09T20:04:31Z")

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Im trying to set up nginx with django. This is the instruction given:

Symlink to this file from /etc/nginx/sites-enabled so nginx can see it:

```
 sudo ln -s ~/path/to/your/mysite/mysite_nginx.conf

```

/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

The problem is this folder doesn’t exist: /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

my only nginx folder is in “/usr/local/nginx” so i don’t know what to  
do (I’m on ubuntu btw.) I’ve tried including the file it wanted me to  
symlink, into my nginx.conf via an “Include” statement but everytime i  
reload nginx, this Include action is causing an error.

What can i do to make nginx see my django project’s config file?

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**Author:** ![Matthew\_Ngaha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Matthew\_Ngaha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Matthew_Ngaha)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/config-issue/238433/2 "2014-01-09T20:30:14Z")

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On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:03:49PM +0000, Matthew Ngaha wrote:

Hi there,

> Im trying to set up nginx with django. This is the instruction given:
> 
> Symlink to this file from /etc/nginx/sites-enabled so nginx can see it:

That instruction assumes that the nginx config file that is being used  
already has something like “include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/\*conf”,  
so that every matching file will be processed.

Apparently that’s not true in this case.

> my only nginx folder is in “/usr/local/nginx” so i don’t know what to  
> do (I’m on ubuntu btw.) I’ve tried including the file it wanted me to  
> symlink, into my nginx.conf via an “Include” statement but everytime i  
> reload nginx, this Include action is causing an error.

“include” is the correct directive to use.

Documentation at [Core functionality](http://nginx.org/r/include), in case anything is  
unclear.

Hopefully the words of the error will be enough to let you find how to  
overcome it.

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