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I've got Ubuntu 11.04 i386 server with nginx 1.0.11 installed. Also, I'm using this init.d script, the only one I've found in several different places. It starts the server nicely, however, on stop/reset it says
* Stopping Nginx Server... [fail]
Of course, the daemon is not stopped, and upon restart the configuration is not reloaded.
How can I repair this?
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If Nginx notices a syntax error in any of the configuration files, the reload is aborted and the server keeps running based on old config files. Reloading is safer than restarting Nginx. The restart command will shut down the server including all related services and power it on again.
For Docker containers (or for debugging), the daemon off; directive tells Nginx to stay in the foreground. For containers this is useful as best practice is for one container = one process. One server (container) has only one service.
The process ID of the master process is written, by default, to the nginx. pid file, which is located in the /usr/local/nginx/logs or /var/run directory.
It's likely that it can't kill the process.
Open up the nginx sysvinit script located in /etc/init.d/ (or /etc/rc.d/) and find where nginx.pid is thought to be. It'll be something like "/var/run/nginx.pid".
If the pid file isn't there, open nginx.conf and look for the pid setting. If it is a mismatch - set the conf value to where the script thinks it should be, e.g.
# pid of nginx process
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
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