Can’t start/restart NGINX server. Failed to start A high-performance web server and a reverse proxy server. error details -
nginx -t nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: open() “/var/log/nginx/error.log” failed (13: Permission denied) 2018/09/23 02:55:23 [warn] 2675#2675: the “user” directive makes sense only if the master process runs with super-user privileges, ignored in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:1 2018/09/23 02:55:23 [emerg] 2675#2675: open() “/etc/nginx/modules-enabled/50-mod-http-passenger.conf” failed (2: No such file or directory) in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:4
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Did you checked the permissions for the error log file ? nginx should be able to read the log file as nginx user. Make sure selinux is disabled.
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