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How do I turn off NGINX and Unicorn on the Ruby on Rails droplet?

Posted on October 18, 2014

I am trying to do the “Rails Tutorial”, and I did a Ruby on rails on ubuntu droplet, but I can’t get NGINX and Unicorn to stop, and allow me to run my little initial test webrick. I have tried service nginx stop and service unicorn stop, and although the web page stops showing up, I cant get it to show my webrick page at port 3000.

I have pretty much accepted that I will just have to delete my server and start from scratch on an empty ubuntu server, how unpleasant.



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You had the correct command to shutdown nginx and unicorn, so I’m not sure what else you did wrong here but there’s nothing DigitalOcean could really do.

:( well maybe there is issues with the rails on ubuntu image, i will try a fresh rails install on just an ubuntu image later

There is no error message. I turn off unicorn and nginx and try to run webrick, and local host:3000 shows nothing at all.

And thanks for being a prick to me after I said I’d try it again. You guys are assholes.

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