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sandhiya velayutham
sandhiya velayutham

Reputation: 107

Restarting the Ngnix

I am a complete beginner to nginx. I am using Ubuntu 16.04. I followed the steps,

  1. sudo apt-get update.
  2. sudo apt-get install nginx
  3. sudo apt-get upgrade

  4. sudo vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/default(here i found a file with default configuration as below)

    server {

listen 8080 default_server;
listen[::]: 8080 default_server;
root /var/www/html;
index index.html index.htm index.nginx - debian.html;

server_name _;

location / {
try_files $uri $uri / = 404;
}
}

then i started the nginx, using

sudo service nginx start

It shows the welcome page of nginx. Now i changed the root, like,

server {
      listen 8080 default_server;
      listen[::]: 8080 default_server;
      root /home/user1/folder1/dist; //this is the path i want to insert in nginx
      index index.html;

      server_name _;

      location / {
        try_files $uri $uri / = 404;
      }
    }

now when i resart the ngnix, i had a problem that,

user1@admin-xxx:/etc/nginx/sites-available$ sudo service nginx restart stop: Unknown instance: nginx stop/pre-start,process 4726

why here i am getting this pre-start, how to prevent this?, what does this mean?, and i want to restart the nginx. Can anyone please tell me how to force stop the nginx and to restart it? As a beginner i could not figure it out,. please help me out..

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1294

Answers (1)

W.Gray
W.Gray

Reputation: 119

usually use sudo nginx -s reload. Before restart, use sudo nginx -t to make sure the configuration is correct.

Upvotes: 2

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