The nginx server configuration file needed to host the MirrorMirror application

mirror.conf

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name localhost;
    root /home/pi/projects/MirrorMirror/public;
    
    index index.html index.htm index.php;
    
    charset utf-8;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }
    
    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

    access_log off;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/myapp-error.log error;

    sendfile off;

    client_max_body_size 100m;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
        fastcgi_buffer_size 16k;
        fastcgi_buffers 4 16k;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}

I've pasted this into sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/mirror.conf but, I am unable to activate configuration when inputting the below.

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/mirror.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/mirror.conf sudo service nginx reload

Error reads: ln: target 'reload' is not a directory. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

I've exactly the same error : "ln: target 'reload' is not a directory"
Could you help us ?

I think you want to break that into two separate commands.
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/mirror.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/mirror.conf
sudo service nginx reload

That error message is because the symlink command, ln -s, is trying to create a symlink to reload, which is not a command. You accidentally created symlinks for the sudo, service, and nginx commands/utilities.

Hi, Trying to build a MirrorMirror and facing an issue. Hope you can help.

Running
sudo service nginx reload
results in
[FAIL] Reloading nginx configuration: nginx failed!

I tried
sudo nginx -c /etc/nginx/nginx.conf -t
and it shows this
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: [emerg] socket() [::]:80 failed (97: Address family not supported by protocol)
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed

Any tips ? (for a "Not a software guy")

Alright, I got nginx to run by editing
/etc/nginx/sites-available/default

and commenting out the IPv6 line
listen [::]:80 default_server;

and nginx runs now.

We got everything to work, but now it just opens the "Welcome to nginx on Debian" page. Anyone know what to do after that?

So update, I just had to change the permissions of the default file and delete it (leaving only mirror.conf) and it worked!

mine only says welcome to nginx