Question
Permission problems installing nginx
- Posted June 9, 2013
I’m following along with this article https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-rails-and-nginx-with-passenger-on-ubuntu. At Step 6, I’m getting the following message asking me where I want nginx installed to (I clicked return) and then got an error because I’m running the installer as my name ‘michael’ (which I gave sudo privileges) instead of root.
Can you explain what I’m doing wrong?
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Where do you want to install Nginx to?
Please specify a prefix directory [/opt/nginx]:
Permission problems
This installer must be able to write to the following directory:
/opt/nginx
But it can’t do that, because you’re running the installer as michael. Please re-run this installer as root.
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The command on step 6 – sudo rvmsudo passenger-install-nginx-module
But I’m not entering a command (I’m only hitting ‘enter’ when it asks me to specify a “prefix directory”) which is triggering the permissions error. How do I prefix an ‘enter’ with sudo?
Try prefixing the command with "sudo " so it runs as root.