Job for nginx.service failed because the control process exited with error code

Question

Problem :

I got below problem which I am trying to fix from the few days now and I am unable to know what should I do, I am looking for the answers but all of those which I found are of no use for me.

I am very new here so I really hope that somebody can help me in resolving my error

$ systemctl status nginx.service
nginx.service - Startup script for nginx service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2020-01-05 13:23:35 GMT; 2min 20s ago
Jan 05 13:23:33 startdedicated.com nginx[8315]: nginx: [emerg] bind() to ------------ f...e)
Jan 05 13:23:33 startdedicated.com nginx[8315]: nginx: [emerg] bind() to ----- f...e)

 

Answer 1

Changing your port may help as the 80 port is already being used somewhere

vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

Change your port as below :

listen 8080 default_server;

listen [::]:8080 default_server;

And after that just restart the nginx server as below:

nginx -t

service nginx restart

 This will resolve your issue.

OR

In my case the issue was because of the apache server is running somehow. So I just stopped my apache then restart the nginx as below :

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop

sudo systemctl restart nginx

And now it is working like a charm!