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What do you get if you run sudo service nginx status
Mar 2, 2022
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Nginx all of a sudden shows an error
I setup nginx last night with help from @sinnbeck, Worked all day, even did a reboot after a system update. Turned off computer for supper, booted back up and when I ran:
sudo systemctl restart nginx.service
Got error and it is:
Failed to start A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
I checked several on line forums, stackoverflow, etc None of the articles I saw solved it. No changes was made to anything in nginx, it just suddenly happened. It's Lubuntu latest LTS version.
I did make sure nothing else was using port 80. Any Ideas?
EDIT
Funny thing is a sudo nginx -t shows
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful
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Ah it just hit me. It might be a race condition. Apache started first (it gets installed automatically with php). Remove it
sudo apt purge apache2
sudo service nginx restart
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I had aready run the following:
:~$ sudo fuser 80/tcp
80/tcp: 851 852 853
:~$ sudo ls -l /proc/851/exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 2 11:26 /proc/851/exe -> /usr/sbin/nginx
:~$ sudo ls -l /proc/852/exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 0 Mar 2 11:26 /proc/852/exe -> /usr/sbin/nginx
:~$ sudo ls -l /proc/853/exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 0 Mar 2 11:26 /proc/853/exe -> /usr/sbin/nginx
As you can see only nginx shows up. I even tried:
sudo service apache2 stop
That did not work. Finally I found on a stackoverflow to use:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
Then it fixed everything, even after another reboot nginx is running normally.
Thanks to all who answered.
@jasenly you said:
alternatively, you will have to research your application and figure out why it is not responding for too long
So I will give you BA. And @sinnbeck thank you, Your help got me over a big hurdle with Lubuntu.
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@jlrdw I suggest uninstalling it as I showed, to avoid it starting again in the future. You have no use for it
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