How to access /cygdrive/c in nginx?

Question

I am trying with Nginx under windows; it requires the file located in the /cygdrive/c.

If I installed cygwin, then everything is file. I am wondering if I can use Nginx without cygwin? How to specify the file in the location like c:\nginx

Answer 1

Yes you can use a nginx without Cygwin. See http://wiki.nginx.org/Install#Official_Win32_Binaries

Answer 2

You can try following code:

location / {

 root  /cygdrive/d/www/; # '/cygdrive/d/' equal to  'D:\' in Nginx under Cygwin
            index  index.html index.htm;            
}

If we want to set D:\www\newsB\ for http://www.#yours.com/newsA/, then we better use alias or rewrite directive of Nginx, something like:

location /newsA/ {

alias /cygdrive/d/www/newsB/;

}