This is my /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:

    user                  nginx;
    pid                   /run/nginx.pid;
    worker_processes      auto;
    error_log             /var/log/nginx/error.log    error;
    worker_rlimit_nofile  10240;
    
    events {
      worker_connections  1000;
      accept_mutex off;         # https://www.nginx.com/blog/thread-pools-boost-performance-9x/
    }
    
    
    http {
    
      aio threads;
      types_hash_max_size 4096;
    
      access_log                    off;
      autoindex                     off;
      charset                       utf-8;
    
      # Timeouts
      keepalive_timeout             15;
      resolver_timeout              1s;
      send_timeout                  25;
    
      expires                       24h;
      client_header_timeout         100;
      client_body_timeout           300;
      client_max_body_size          20M;
    
      reset_timedout_connection     on;
      connection_pool_size          256;
      
      
      add_header Referrer-Policy "origin-when-cross-origin";
      add_header  Strict-Transport-Security   "max-age=63072000; includeSubdomains" always;
      sendfile                       off;
      tcp_nopush                     on;
      tcp_nodelay                    on;
      server_tokens                  off;
      server_name_in_redirect        off;
      server_names_hash_max_size     10240;
      server_names_hash_bucket_size  1024;
    
      include                        mime.types;
      default_type                   application/x-httpd-php;
      ignore_invalid_headers         on;
    
      index    index.php index.htm index.html;
    
    
        #------------------------------------------------------
        #  MAIN - mydomain.COM
        #------------------------------------------------------
        server {
            listen          147.182.136.21:80;
            server_name     .mydomain.com  147.182.136.21;
            root            /home/mydomain;
            index           index.htm   index.html;
    
            error_page 404 403 /40x.htm;
            error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.htm;
            location = /40x.htm { root /home/mydomain; allow all; }
            location = /50x.htm { root /home/mydomain; allow all; }
            location ~ /. { deny all; }
    
        }
    
    
    } ## End of overall http block

As seen in the server block, the mydomain.com stuff should be coming from /home/mydomain, but I keep getting 404s because according to the logs, Nginx is still looking for files inside the /usr/share/nginx/html/ path.

2024/05/05 03:21:53 [error] 70746#70746: *126 open() 
"/usr/share/nginx/html/favicon.ico" 
failed (2: No such file or directory), 
client: 198.98.120.56, server: localhost, 
request: "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1", 
host: "3.4.5.6", referrer: "http://3.4.5.6/"

Why is this? How can I force Nginx to look into the path I’ve specified in my nginx.conf?