Question

Nginx is unable to bind to 443

  • Posted on January 31, 2015
  • oliverAsked by oliver

Hi all, I have been trying to bind my nginx to port 443. The config file works fine however when i type sudo nginx i repeatedly get address is in use on the bind. I have then used netstat which claims nginx is using the port yet nginx is actually saying it’s not binding.

/etc/nginx/sites-available$ sudo netstat -pan | grep “:443” tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3448/nginx /etc/nginx/sites-available$ sudo nginx nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:443 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:443 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:443 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:443 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:443 failed (98: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] still could not bind()

I have killed all Nginx processes and started up a new nginx copy. rebooted the server to no avail…

Any ideas on what i can do next?

Thanks


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sudo fuser -k 443/tcp service nginx restart

What happens when you run sudo fuser -k 443/tcp? I am working with Docker running Nginx get that error inside the container. I cannot run that command because my Docker items run on 443. How do I fit the error in a Docker Container?

Hello I am facing above issue :

nginx: [warn] the “user” directive makes sense only if the master process runs with super-user privileges, ignored in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:1 nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (13: Permission denied) nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed

PLEASE HELP ME FOR THE SAME.ITS DEPEND ON MY JOB.

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