Following the How to install rails and nginx with passenger on Ubuntu tutorial from DigitalOcean.com, the seventh step manually starts nginx:
sudo service nginx start
but fails with the following error:
nginx: unrecognized service
asked Feb 16, 2013 at 23:36
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The nginx: unrecognized service error means the startup scripts need to be created.
Fortunately the startup scripts have already been written.
We can fetch them with wget and set them up following these steps:
# Download nginx startup script
wget -O init-deb.sh https://www.linode.com/docs/assets/660-init-deb.sh
# Move the script to the init.d directory & make executable
sudo mv init-deb.sh /etc/init.d/nginx
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/nginx
# Add nginx to the system startup
sudo /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f nginx defaults
Now we can control nginx using:
sudo service nginx stop
sudo service nginx start
sudo service nginx restart
sudo service nginx reload
answered Feb 16, 2013 at 23:36
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For my info, why/would we need this if we have an appropriately-configured
/etc/init/nginx.conf?– msanfordJun 27, 2014 at 15:38 -
first try this sudo service nginx stop sudo service nginx start, if this not working then try above steps. Oct 10, 2014 at 10:23
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1I have installed nginx in /etc directory (/etc/nginx), i have updated script path also:
PATH=/etc/nginx/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin DAEMON=/etc/nginx/sbin/nginxbut it's not working, do i have to change anything else?– AdanAug 30, 2015 at 11:54
It can also mean that the permissions are wrong on the init script, e.g. you do not have the execute bit set
for me I was running vagrant to setup nginx and forgot to put in the -y so the nginx install had not completed. So I just needed to ensure it was fine in my Vagrant init.sh bash file
sudo apt-get install -y nginx
sudo service nginx restart
Some files required by NGINX may have been deleted or misplaced.
