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

Posted on April 7, 2014

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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vishnumorya

August 9, 2019

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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. … 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 ------ virtual host default ------ <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:8080> to <VirtualHost *:80>

Iko

April 7, 2014

VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:8080 to VirtualHost *:80