Service nginx restart fail

dude, thank you!

Hi, all

As some users already mentioned you should always examine the error_log in order to check what’s wrong with the configuration:

You can either tail or cat the file:

tail -f /var/log/nginx/error.log tail -n 200 /var/log/nginx/error.log cat /var/log/nginx/error.log

You can also check for any syntax errors:

sudo nginx -t

In newer OSs like CentOS 7 you can use use the journalctl command to see the logs that the journald daemon has collected.

When used alone, every journal entry that is in the system will be displayed within a pager (usually less) for you to browse. The oldest entries will be up top:

journalctl

We have an existing tutorial on how to view and manipulate systemd logs.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-journalctl-to-view-and-manipulate-systemd-logs

Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex

Your logs should indicate why that command failed. You can also use “nginx -t” to test your config for errors.

The logs are generally in /var/log/nginx