Configuration for running nginx not-as-root in a local directory (place files to serve in a child folder called "app")

nginx.conf

daemon off;

events {
  worker_connections  1024;
}

http {
  access_log /dev/stdout;
  error_log /dev/stderr;

  types {
    text/html                             html htm shtml;
    text/css                              css;
    image/gif                             gif;
    image/jpeg                            jpeg jpg;
    application/javascript                js;
  }

  server {
    listen 8002;
    index index.html;
    root  app;
  }
}

run-nginx.sh

nginx -p `pwd` -c `pwd`/nginx.conf