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The Site Can't Be Reached

Hi,

When I try to connect to my website, it can’t be reached.

When I run sudo service nginx status

I get the following message.

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 Wed 2021-06-16 01:41:38 UTC; 1min 10s ago Docs: man:nginx(8) Process: 5586 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g daemon on; master_process on; (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jun 16 01:41:38 edmundburke systemd[1]: Starting A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server… Jun 16 01:41:38 edmundburke nginx[5586]: nginx: [emerg] unknown directive “alais” in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:66 Jun 16 01:41:38 edmundburke nginx[5586]: nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed Jun 16 01:41:38 edmundburke systemd[1]: nginx.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1 Jun 16 01:41:38 edmundburke systemd[1]: nginx.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’. Jun 16 01:41:38 edmundburke systemd[1]: Failed to start A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server.

I can’t find anything online to help solve the problem so would really appreciate some help.

Thanks,

Eddie

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Bobby Iliev • June 16, 2021

Hi there @edmundjtburke,

It looks like that you have a typo in the Nginx configuration file on line 66. It should not be alais but alias. You can open the file on line 66 directly with this command and fix the typo:

sudo nano +66 /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

And there change the alais keyword to alias. After that save the file with CTRL+O, hit Enter to confirm and exit with CTRL+X.

Finally run another config test with:

sudo nginx -t

And if you get Syntax OK restart Nginx:

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Hope that this helps. Regards, Bobby

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