Server is down (Nginx as Front-End Proxy for Apache error)

April 7, 2014 3.6k views
nicholausleary
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Hi, I went through Digital Ocean's tutorial for https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-configure-nginx-as-a-front-end-proxy-for-apache and can't get nginx to work with apache. I tried uninstalling nginx (sudo apt-get purge nginx) yet I still can't find the nginx config file (sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/example file). I followed the instructions word for word and copy and pasted everything. I must have done something wrong, because now my site is down. Was I supposed to change any of the examples to match my site?? Any help is much appreciated, Thanks, Nicholaus
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iko April 7, 2014
- "I tried uninstalling nginx (sudo apt-get purge nginx) yet I still can't find the nginx config file (sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/example file)."

If you using "sudo apt-get purge nginx" that mean you delete all NGINX files and folder. Thats why you can not find nginx file anymore. You can check on your '/etc' folder :

cd /etc
ls

See, if there is a folder nginx? If there is, you try to go into a folder nginx. Surely there are some files that have been lost. The solution is to re-install Nginx and setup the configuration back.

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If you do not want to use nginx again, all you need is to restore the Apache port to the default http port. And your virtualhost.

sudo nano /etc/apache2/ports.conf

NameVirtualHost *:80
Listen *:80

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virtual host default
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to
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iko April 7, 2014
VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:8080
to
VirtualHost *:80
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nicholausleary April 7, 2014
Hi Iko,

Thank you for your help, you cleared up my confusion.

Nicholaus
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