Here is the service-definition I use:

             (nginx-service #:vhost-list
               (list (nginx-vhost-configuration     
                      (root (string-append nginx "/share/nginx/html"))

I believe that file-append is intended for this use case.

Maybe, but I can't get it to work. This minimal system declarision fails with "In procedure string-append: Wrong type (expecting string): #<<file-append> base: #<package nginx@1.11.6 gnu/packages/web.scm:126 2a236c0> suffix: ("/")>"

(use-modules (gnu))
(use-service-modules networking web)
(define NGINX (file-append nginx "/"))
(define TEST (string-append NGINX ""))

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