Nginx not running with no error message

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I am trying to start my nginx server  When I type      etc init d nginx start   I have a message appearing  Starting nginx    and then nothing happens  There is no error message  and when I check the status of nginx I see that it is not running   Here is my  etc nginx nginx conf file   worker processes  4  daemon off   error log   home vincent tmp nginx log   pid         home vincent tmp nginx pid    events       worker connections  1024      http   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   home vincent tmp access log  main   sendfile        on   keepalive timeout  65   include  etc nginx site-enabled         And here is my  etc nginx sites-available default file    server     listen       80    server name technical-test neo9 lan      access log   var log nginx technical-test neo9 lan log main     set  home  home vincent     location         alias  home neo9 web app       index  index html         location  api        rewrite    api          1 break      proxy pass http   localhost 1234      proxy set header Host  host      proxy set header X-Real-IP  remote addr

User · Answer

You should probably check for errors in /var/log/nginx/error.log.

In my case I did no add the port for ipv6. You should also do this (in case you are running nginx on a port other than 80): listen [::]:8000 default_server ipv6only=on;

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For what it s worth  I just had the same problem  after editing the nginx conf file  I tried and tried restarting it by commanding sudo nginx restart and various other commands  None of them produced any output  Commanding sudo nginx -t to check the configuration file gave the output sudo  nginx  command not found  which was puzzling  I was starting to think there were problems with the path   Finally  I logged in as root  sudo su  and commanded sudo nginx restart  Now  the command displayed an error message concerning the configuration file  After fixing that  it restarted successfully

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One case you check that nginx hold on 80 number port in system by default   check if you have any server like as apache or anything  exist on system  that block 80 number port thats the problem occurred   1  You change port number on nginx by this way      sudo vim  etc nginx sites-available default   Change 80 to 81 or anything    Check everything is ok by        sudo nginx -t    Restart server      sudo service nginx start    Check the status of nginx       sudo service nginx status   Hope that will work

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First  always sudo nginx -t to verify your config files are good   I ran into the same problem  The reason I had the issue was twofold  First  I had accidentally copied a log file into my site-enabled folder  I deleted the log file and made sure that all the files in sites-enabled were proper nginx site configs  I also noticed two of my virtual hosts were listening for the same domain  So I made sure that each of my virtual hosts had unique domain names   sudo service nginx restart  Then it worked

User · Answer

In your  etc nginx nginx conf file you have   include  etc nginx site-enabled      And probably the path you are using is    etc nginx sites-enabled default   Notice the missing s in site

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1  Check for your configuration files by running the aforementioned command  sudo nginx -t   2  Check for port conflicts  For instance  if apache2  ps waux   grep apache2  or any other service is using the same ports configured for nginx  say port 80  the service will not start and will fail silently  err    the cousin of my friend had this problem

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Check the daemon option in nginx conf file  It has to be ON  Or you can simply rip out this line from config file  This option is fully described here http   nginx org en docs ngx core module html daemon

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I had the exact same problem with my instance  My problem was that I forgot to allow port 80 access to the server  Maybe that s your issue as well    Check with your WHM and make sure that port is open for the IP address of your site

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