start nginx failed

[DeVito]

hi all.
i failed to get nginx working on my raspberry pi (model b) running on pidora 18 r2c.
everything i've done was to set up a fresh pidora via 'dd if=pidora-18-r2c.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4M', running the firstboot wizard and install nginx as root user via 'yum install nginx' shell command.
afterwards if i try to start nginx as root user ('systemctl enable nginx' and 'systemctl start nginx') an error 'Job for nginx.service failed. ...' returns.
'journalctl -n' prints the following:

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[root@raspi ~]# journalctl -n
-- Logs begin at Wed, 1969-12-31 19:00:02 EST, end at Fri, 2013-11-15 08:25:39 EST. --
Nov 15 07:48:20 raspi.local pkexec[1132]: root: Executing command [USER=root] [TTY=/dev/pts/1] [CWD=/root] [COMMAND=/usr/share/system-config-users/system-config-users.py]
Nov 15 07:58:29 raspi.local systemd[1]: Reloading.
Nov 15 07:58:43 raspi.local systemd[1]: Starting The nginx HTTP and reverse proxy server...
Nov 15 07:58:43 raspi.local systemd[1]: nginx.service: control process exited, code=killed status=4
Nov 15 07:58:43 raspi.local systemd[1]: Failed to start The nginx HTTP and reverse proxy server.
Nov 15 07:58:43 raspi.local systemd[1]: Unit nginx.service entered failed state
Nov 15 08:25:38 raspi.local systemd[1]: Starting The nginx HTTP and reverse proxy server...
Nov 15 08:25:39 raspi.local systemd[1]: nginx.service: control process exited, code=killed status=4
Nov 15 08:25:39 raspi.local systemd[1]: Failed to start The nginx HTTP and reverse proxy server.
Nov 15 08:25:39 raspi.local systemd[1]: Unit nginx.service entered failed state

is there anybody out there who has the same problem and/or experiences related to this problem and/or a solution?

thank you,
DeVito

[rafdune]

I have the same problem. And no log file found...

[DougieLawson]

What's in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf?

I'm running it on Raspbian but the basic principles should be the same.

My nginx.conf file has

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        access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

to define where the logs get written.

If you can find your nginx.conf you can check for those (or "grep -R -e 'error_' *" in the config directory).

If you can't find the nginx.conf try overriding it by running nginx from a root shell (sudo -i nginx -c /root/temp.nginx.conf).
Or try nginx -V and it announces

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root@pi /etc/nginx # nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/1.2.1
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --prefix=/etc/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/body --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/fastcgi --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/proxy --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/scgi --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/uwsgi --lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --with-pcre-jit --with-debug --with-http_addition_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_geoip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_image_filter_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_xslt_module --with-ipv6 --with-sha1=/usr/include/openssl --with-md5=/usr/include/openssl --with-mail --with-mail_ssl_module --add-module=/build/nginx-L115aP/nginx-1.2.1/debian/modules/nginx-auth-pam --add-module=/build/nginx-L115aP/nginx-1.2.1/debian/modules/nginx-echo --add-module=/build/nginx-L115aP/nginx-1.2.1/debian/modules/nginx-upstream-fair --add-module=/build/nginx-L115aP/nginx-1.2.1/debian/modules/nginx-dav-ext-module
root@pi /etc/nginx #

[DeVito]

Hi.

@rafdune:
What a relief! Because this means i'm not the only one.
But nevertheless meanwhile i switched to Arch Linux.

@DougieLawson:
Thank you for your reply.
But i tried both of your tips unsuccessfully right before my first post; sorry that i forget to give this information.
Activate "access_log" and "error_log" was ineffective as well as starting nginx via shell as root user wasn't possible.
But experimentally i build nginx on pidora from the last stable sources ... and the resulting binary was executable!
So i think related to nginx there is some crap in the pidora repository

DeVito

[DougieLawson]

If you build it from source without setting any parms the executable module goes in /usr/local/bin and all the other stuff is dotted around the /usr/local directories (like /usr/local/etc).

I made a symlink from /etc/nginx/nginx.conf to /usr/local/etc/nginx.conf so any version would use the same config file.