Why won't my container run? - nginx

Question

Ubuntu 15.10
Using this run command with the official nginx image:
sudo docker run -dit --name="myApp" -p 8181:80 -v /home/username/Documents/My\ Folder/Repos/my-app:/usr/share/nginx/html:ro -v /home/username/Documents/My\ Folder/Repos/my-app/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro nginx
It runs fine without the 2nd VOLUME declaration (without the custom nginx.conf), but I recently added it because I need to configure some things (AngularJS html5 routing mode).
My nginx.conf (All I did was add the location settings, everything else was copied over from the original):
user nginx;
worker_processes 1;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
location / {
root /home/username/Documents/My Folder/Repos/my-app;
try_files $uri index.html;
}
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
log_format main '$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;
keepalive_timeout 65;
#gzip on;
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}

Answer 1

Your location block should be within a server block:
server {
location / {
root /home/username/Documents/My Folder/Repos/my-app;
try_files $uri index.html;
}
}
A tutorial for some more information: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understanding-the-nginx-configuration-file-structure-and-configuration-contexts#the-location-context