{"id":3511,"date":"2021-11-02T06:16:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T06:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2021-11-02T06:16:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T06:16:15","slug":"what-to-do-when-the-service-nginx-restart-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/what-to-do-when-the-service-nginx-restart-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Do When the Service Nginx Restart Fails?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this tutorial, you will understand how to find the error when the service Nginx restart fails.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, you get the error \u201cservice nginx restart fails\u201d when something goes wrong whereas you edit the nginx.conf. Nginx doesn\u2019t restart after that.<\/p>\n<p>1. Run the below syntax after each modification is done in your nginx config file, to resolve this error:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sudo nginx \u2013tb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This command can assist you to search out any error in config file. The nginx errors should be fix immediately if found any.<\/p>\n<p>2. Execute the below command, in case all is working well :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sudo service nginx reload<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reload \u2013 Without restart, it means your configuration will be reloaded by nginx.<\/li>\n<li>restart \u2013 It&#8217;ll stop and start the nginx again. Your website will go offline for few seconds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3. The error log can be checked as below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>cat \/var\/log\/nginx\/error.log<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus using above steps, you can resolve the \u201cservice nginx restart fails\u201d error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this tutorial, you will understand how to find the error when the service Nginx restart fails. Basically, you get the error \u201cservice nginx restart fails\u201d when something goes wrong whereas you edit the nginx.conf. Nginx doesn\u2019t restart after that. 1. 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