NGinx: set localhost/project to project git folder - nginx

Question

I am currently working on a small website in my free time. For development, I keep all git repositories in ~/git. Is it possible to configurate nginx so that if I go to localhost/A or localhost/B, it would use ~/git/A and ~/git/B respectively?
I am using fedora and tried with a single repo, but I keep getting 404:
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
user nginx;
worker_processes auto;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
root /home/MartenBE/git/;
index index.html index.php;
location /A/ {
alias /home/MartenBE/git/A/;
}
}
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
server_name _;
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
# Load configuration files for the default server block.
include /etc/nginx/default.d/*.conf;
location / {
}
error_page 404 /404.html;
location = /40x.html {
}
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
}
}
}

Answer 1

I think only following should work for you.
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
root /home/MartenBE/git/;
index index.html index.php;
}
You don't need to add location module because you have already defined root. Now if you try localhost/A/index.html, Nginx will try to find it under /home/MartenBE/git/A/index.html.
What are the requests you are trying ?

Answer 2

First of all it is good to seperate site configuration from main nginx conf file.
Do the following..
Remove all server blocks from /etc/nginx/nginx.conf.
create a file in /etc/nginx/sites-available/yourconf with the following content.
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
root /home/MartenBE/git/;
index index.html index.php;
}
Create a symlink to the config file inside /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yourconf.
Remove /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default & reload the nginx config.
NOTE: if you are using ubuntu run sudo service nginx reload