I have an Ubuntu droplet running Nginx and I’m trying to restart the service: service nginx restart but it says [fail].
There’s nothing in the error log: /var/log/nginx/error.log
What am I missing?
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sudo nginx -t
It should give you more details about what went wrong.
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