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Last login: Mon Jan 22 11:23:45 2018 /usr/bin/xauth: file /home/marcelo/.Xauthority does not exist root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc3-01:~$ systemctl status nginx ● nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2018-01-22 12:06:06 UTC; 53s ago Process: 1361 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g daemon on; master_process on; (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
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Based on what you shared my best guess is that your log files in /var/log/nginx have the incorrect ownership. If the ownership of these files were changed to root you would likely see nginx fail in this way (being unable to open the logs) but you would still be able to view your log files since you are logged in as root.
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user www-data; worker_processes auto; pid /run/nginx.pid;
events { worker_connections 768; # multi_accept on; }
http {
}
Follow the path on my Droplet:
/var/log/nginx/error.log
2018/01/22 00:30:52 [emerg] 3686#3686: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:37 2018/01/22 00:32:21 [emerg] 3697#3697: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:37 2018/01/22 00:32:41 [emerg] 3705#3705: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:37 2018/01/22 00:32:58 [emerg] 3713#3713: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:37 2018/01/22 00:33:27 [emerg] 3725#3725: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:37 2018/01/22 00:36:44 [emerg] 3744#3744: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:37 2018/01/22 00:39:03 [emerg] 3796#3796: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:37 2018/01/22 00:39:31 [emerg] 3805#3805: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:37 2018/01/22 00:49:35 [emerg] 3834#3834: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:37 2018/01/22 00:52:08 [emerg] 3982#3982: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:37 2018/01/22 00:55:59 [emerg] 4071#4071: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:37 2018/01/22 00:58:03 [emerg] 4089#4089: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:37 2018/01/22 01:02:38 [emerg] 4107#4107: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:37 2018/01/22 01:02:48 [emerg] 4116#4116: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:37 2018/01/22 01:03:09 [emerg] 4195#4195: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:37 2018/01/22 01:11:34 [emerg] 4256#4256: invalid parameter “104.236.56.190” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:18 2018/01/22 01:11:51 [emerg] 4337#4337: invalid parameter “104.236.56.190” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:18 2018/01/22 01:18:04 [emerg] 4359#4359: invalid parameter “104.236.56.190” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:18 2018/01/22 01:22:36 [emerg] 4375#4375: invalid parameter “104.236.56.190” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:18 2018/01/22 01:25:28 [emerg] 4394#4394: invalid parameter “104.236.56.190” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:18 2018/01/22 01:26:11 [emerg] 4410#4410: invalid parameter “local_host” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:18 2018/01/22 01:27:01 [emerg] 4425#4425: unknown directive “access_log/var/log/nginx/localhost_access.log” in /etc/nginx/sites-e$ 2018/01/22 11:23:26 [emerg] 1375#1375: unknown directive “default_server” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:42 2018/01/22 11:26:24 [emerg] 1758#1758: unknown directive “default_server” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:42 2018/01/22 12:06:06 [emerg] 1361#1361: unknown directive “default_server” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:42 2018/01/22 12:53:00 [emerg] 1401#1401: unknown directive “default_server” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:42 2018/01/23 12:57:46 [emerg] 1354#1354: unknown directive “default_server” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:42 2018/01/23 14:14:19 [emerg] 8712#8712: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38 2018/01/23 14:15:16 [emerg] 8745#8745: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38 2018/01/23 14:40:08 [emerg] 9067#9067: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38 2018/01/23 14:48:12 [emerg] 9101#9101: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38 2018/01/23 14:49:26 [emerg] 9122#9122: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38 2018/01/23 15:07:03 [emerg] 9330#9330: “worker_processes” directive is not allowed here in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:6 2018/01/23 15:44:43 [emerg] 1382#1382: “worker_processes” directive is not allowed here in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:6 2018/01/23 16:43:59 [emerg] 1386#1386: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38 2018/01/23 17:05:05 [emerg] 1859#1859: unknown directive “marcelo/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38 2018/01/23 17:07:59 [emerg] 1881#1881: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38 2018/01/23 17:20:59 [emerg] 1956#1956: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38 2018/01/23 17:23:53 [emerg] 2014#2014: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38 2018/01/23 17:32:20 [emerg] 2049#2049: unknown directive “/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38 2018/01/23 17:33:28 [emerg] 2069#2069: unknown directive “./usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38 2018/01/23 17:34:33 [emerg] 2087#2087: unknown directive “./usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38 2018/01/23 17:41:42 [emerg] 2151#2151: unknown directive “./usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38 2018/01/23 17:41:50 [emerg] 2166#2166: unknown directive “./usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38 2018/01/23 17:54:59 [emerg] 2333#2333: unknown directive “./usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38 2018/01/23 17:55:23 [emerg] 2352#2352: unknown directive “./usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38 2018/01/23 18:00:06 [emerg] 2436#2436: unknown directive “./usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38 2018/01/23 18:04:59 [emerg] 2515#2515: unknown directive “./usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38 2018/01/23 18:18:45 [emerg] 2606#2606: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38 2018/01/23 19:59:09 [emerg] 1365#1365: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38 2018/01/24 00:39:09 [emerg] 1362#1362: unknown directive “root/usr/share/nginx/html” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:38
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc3-01:~$ nginx -t nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: open() “/var/log/nginx/error.log” failed (13: Permission denied) 2018/01/23 15:45:33 [warn] 1703#1703: the “user” directive makes sense only if the master process runs with super-user privileges, ignored in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:1 2018/01/23 15:45:33 [emerg] 1703#1703: “worker_processes” directive is not allowed here in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:6 nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed