In windows you have to give full path of the directory where the config files are located. There are two files to update: nginx.conf, which tells nginx where to find web sites, and localhost.conf, which is the configuration for a web site.

It is assumed that nginx is installed in C:\nginx. If the installation directory is at another path, you will have to update that path accordingly, wherever it appears in the following two configuration files.

nginx.conf

Location: C:\nginx\conf

worker_processes  1;events {    worker_connections  1024;}http {    include       mime.types;    default_type  application/octet-stream;    #to read external configuration.    include "C:/nginx/conf/sites-enabled/*.conf";}

localhost.conf

Location: C:\nginx\conf\sites-enabled

server {        listen       80;        server_name  localhost;        location / {            root   html;            index  index.html index.htm;        }        error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;        location = /50x.html {            root   html;        }}

The "sites-enabled" approach as used by some Linux packages of nginx utilize include directive, which understands shell wildcards, see http://nginx.org/r/include. You may use it in your own config as well, e.g.

http {    ...    include /path/to/sites/*.conf;}

Note though that such approach might be very confusing (in particular, it would be hard to tell which server{} is the default one unless you use default_server explicitly).

The following worked for me but only AFTER I moved my main nginx exe folder from c:/Program Files (x86)/nginx-1.7.0 to c:/nginx-1.7.0 (because I think it doesn't handle spaces in file paths well):

http {    ...    include "f:/code/mysite/dev-ops/nginx/dev/mysite.conf";}