I have been following the instructions on this article:
When I enter the command on Step Seven—Start nginx I get the following error:
sudo service nginx start /etc/init.d/nginx: 2: /etc/init.d/nginx: Syntax error: newline unexpected
When inspecting the /etc/init.d/nginx file it is just an html welcome page.
I’m a newbie to nginx and don’t know how to resolve this. Can anyone provide some help?
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Just to be clear, when you run cat /etc/init.d/nginx, the output is HTML?
If so, there’s something wrong with your init.d script. And by wrong, I mean, completely bananas.
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Something is wrong with your installation, try start over. also you can try: service nginx start
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