From 6dd3c0e05b3a7ec7e698939362340dd322f2d35b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gareth Rees <gareth@mysociety.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:24:31 +0100
Subject: Add note about nginx config paths

---
 docs/installing/manual_install.md | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'docs/installing')

diff --git a/docs/installing/manual_install.md b/docs/installing/manual_install.md
index edc6093cd..2621e15ea 100644
--- a/docs/installing/manual_install.md
+++ b/docs/installing/manual_install.md
@@ -732,6 +732,10 @@ Copy the example nginx config
     cp /var/www/alaveteli/config/nginx.conf.example \
       /etc/nginx/sites-available/alaveteli
 
+<div class="attention-box">
+  <strong>Note:</strong> For historical reasons, <code>nginx.conf.example</code> has the path to Alaveteli set as <code>/var/www/alaveteli/alaveteli</code> – you will need to manually change this to <code>/var/www/alaveteli</code>, or to the root of your Alaveteli install
+</div>
+
 Disable the default site and enable the `alaveteli` server
 
     rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
@@ -761,6 +765,10 @@ and enable the server
     ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/alaveteli_https \
       /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/alaveteli_https
 
+<div class="attention-box">
+  <strong>Note:</strong> For historical reasons, <code>nginx-ssl.conf-example</code> has the path to Alaveteli set as <code>/var/www/alaveteli/alaveteli</code> – you will need to manually change this to <code>/var/www/alaveteli</code>, or to the root of your Alaveteli install
+</div>
+
 <!-- Force HTTPS requests from the HTTP VirtualHost
 
     cp /var/www/alaveteli/config/httpd-force-ssl.conf-example \
-- 
cgit v1.2.3