Nginx El Capitan ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED - macos

I Have installed Nginx-full via homebrew to the latests stable 1.8.1 version. I have installed php7.0 via brew as well. I want to get php working but i can't first get nginx to serve a static file. I have this configuration on a server and works perfectly but on my mac I'm having trouble. I set up my sites directory as follows:
nginx.conf:
#user www-data www-data;
worker_processes 4;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include mime.types;
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}
/sites-available/default
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
root /Users/londreblocker/Developer/Sites/bootstrap;
index index.php
error_log /Users/londreblocker/Logs/DMFA_erros.log;
access_log
/Users/londreblocker/Logs/DMFA_access.log;
}
there is a symbolic link to default in the sites-enabled folder. When i try to connect all i get is
This webpage is not available
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
Any idea what could be going wrong. I am on a mac with El Capitan.

Check if nginx configuration is correct:
sudo nginx -t
and your config symlinks not broken:
ls -al /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
Check if nginx running:
ps aux |grep nginx
Check if nginx listening port 80:
sudo lsof -i -P | grep -i "listen"

If anyone is interested in my solution.
I had more than one version of nginx running due to previous install attempts and incorrect uninstalls. I deleted all versions and then did a reinstall. Seems to be working now.

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Screen shot of the install and nginx.conf
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}
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code to be just below the server
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was listening for ipv6 like #ZYWJ was hinting at.
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