I was trying to set up my website when i got a message saying
“System update required” when i ssh into my cPanel.
So i used ‘sudo system reboot’
Since then, i get the “Site can’t be reached” problem. Ever since then when a friend tried to connect to the server he got an Error 503 message.
I understand that the 503 message means that the server doesn’t have enough CPU or memory to handle traffic. But i don’t have any traffic coming to my website at all. Its just a fresh website. Nothing there.
i checked my error logs in /var/log/nginx/ and got these messages:
2017/11/19 22:34:13 [emerg] 1384#1384: “server” directive is not allowed here in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:52
2017/11/19 22:34:13 [emerg] 1396#1396: “server” directive is not allowed here in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:52
2017/11/19 22:34:13 [emerg] 2087#2087: “server” directive is not allowed here in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:52
2017/11/19 22:34:13 [emerg] 1380#1380: “server” directive is not allowed here in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:52
2017/11/19 22:34:13 [emerg] 1375#1375: “server” directive is not allowed here in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:52
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Sorry to see that your question hasn’t received an answer yet. An nginx “directive is not allowed here” error means that you have a syntax error in one of your nginx configuration files. In this case, it’s /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default. Make sure you don’t have any misplaced semicolons, or nested server blocks. You can also post the file’s content here and we’ll take a look. Whenever you make a change to a config file, you can test it for syntax errors by running sudo nginx -t.
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