Question
Nginx Restart Fails and Show Not Running, But Site is Being Served.
I have a droplet that I initially set up host gitlab, just the stock installation. My trying to modify it to support other, very light weight sites. I followed the instructions from the Digital Ocean tutorial.
I followed all the steps and when attempting to restart
root@git ~# service nginx restart
* Restarting nginx nginx [fail]
I’ve done some extensive searches of the web and got turned on to nginx -t
.
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful
When I check the nginx status:
service nginx status
nginx is not running
or
/etc/init.d/nginx status
* nginx is not running
I restarted my droplet and the netstat comes back with nginx listening. But when I run service --status-all
the nginx line is :
[ - ] nginx
What am I missing?
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