Nginx not running with no error message

Question

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;
  }
}

Using this command give me this answer : "Testing nginx configuration: nginx." — user2618928
And "sudo nginx -t" gives me : nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful — user2618928
I am always starting it with sudo, otherwise I get an error of permission denied when it tries to acces the error.log file — user2618928

badmadrad badmadrad · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-29T20:21:52

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.

Nginx not running with no error message

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