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Can't start nginx.

Posted on February 5, 2018

Job for nginx.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See “systemctl status nginx.service” and "journalctl -xe



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Hi guys

Thanks for the your valuable suggestions.

Here I had issue like my apache2 and nginx is running in the same port number. I changed the apache2 port number from 80 to 8080 and it worked for me.

[root@localhost bin]# nginx -t nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful [root@localhost bin]# nginx nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:443 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:443 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:443 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:443 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:443 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] still could not bind() [root@localhost bin]# systemctl status nginx.service ● nginx.service - The nginx HTTP and reverse proxy server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2018-04-09 16:35:28 IST; 6min ago Process: 22654 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nginx (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Process: 22597 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 22595 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/rm -f /run/nginx.pid (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Apr 09 16:35:27 localhost.localdomain nginx[22654]: nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:443 failed (98: Address already in use) Apr 09 16:35:27 localhost.localdomain nginx[22654]: nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use) Apr 09 16:35:28 localhost.localdomain nginx[22654]: nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use) Apr 09 16:35:28 localhost.localdomain nginx[22654]: nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:443 failed (98: Address already in use) Apr 09 16:35:28 localhost.localdomain nginx[22654]: nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use) Apr 09 16:35:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: nginx.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Apr 09 16:35:28 localhost.localdomain nginx[22654]: nginx: [emerg] still could not bind() Apr 09 16:35:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start The nginx HTTP and reverse proxy server. Apr 09 16:35:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit nginx.service entered failed state. Apr 09 16:35:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: nginx.service failed.

How can i fixed.

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