By brendang
I want to enable HTTPS on my droplet, so i followed these instructions, which state as a pre-requisite that i needed to install nginx and set up server blocks using these instructions.
when trying to set up server blocks following the 2nd set of instructions, every time i get to sudo systemctl restart nginx i get the following error: Job for nginx.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
Since my droplet is a web app running off an app in a docker conatainer, i won’t have any html files to add or any pages to my site. should i be setting up the server block differently than in the example?
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Hi there @brendang,
It sounds like that there could be another service listening on port 80 already so Nginx is failing to start.
In order to verify if this is the case, I would recommend checking your Nginx error log.
- tail -f /var/log/nginx/error.log
Also I would suggest following the steps here on how to troubleshoot common Nginx problems:
Regards, Bobby
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