It works.

nginx is serving this page from site/index.html on port 8080.

Try it

• Edit this file and refresh — no restart needed, nginx reads from disk each request.
• Visit /nope to see the custom 404 page.
• Watch logs/access.log to see requests as they arrive.

Reload after config changes

Editing nginx.conf does require a reload:

nginx -p . -c nginx.conf -s reload