How to Find Nginx Config File on a Nixos Vm

Nixos… hm, a dream for my web hosting company, but a nightmare as a casual user :-D

Compared to other Linux distributions, there are so many differences.

For a start… where the heck is my nginx.conf? Hint - it is not in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

systemctl cat nginx

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X-CheckConfigCmd=/nix/store/xxx-nginx-1.14.2/bin/nginx -t -c /nix/store/xxx-nginx.conf -p /var/spool/nginx
X-ConfigFile=/nix/store/xxx-nginx.conf

In order to show the configuration, FlyingCircus (my hosting company) created a custom command

nginx-show-config | less
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This outputs the combined nginx configuration.