nginx not listening to port 80

Question

I've just installed a Ubuntu 12.04 server and nginx 1.2.7, removed default from sites-enabled and added my own file into sites-available and symlink at sites-enabled. Then restarted nginx.

Problem: However going to the URL does not load the site. netstat -nlp | grep nginx and netstat -nlp | grep 80 both returns no results! lsof -i :80 also returns nothing. A dig from another server returns the correct ip address so it shouldn't be a DNS problem. I was able to connect to apache which I have now stopped its service. nginx logs also show nothing.

How should I troubleshoot this problem?

/etc/nginx/site-available/mysite.com

server {     listen   80;     server_name www.mysite.com mysite.com *.mysite.com;     access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;     error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;     root /var/www/mysite/public;      index index.php index.html;      location / {         try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args ;     }     location ~ \.php$ {         fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;         fastcgi_index index.php;         include fastcgi_params;         fastcgi_read_timeout 300;     }  } 

Answer 1

I had this same problem, the solution was that I had not symlinked my siteconf file correctly. Try running vim /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/mysite.com—can you get to it? I was getting "Permission Denied."

If not run:

rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/mysite.com ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/mysite.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/mysite.com 

Answer 2

If your logs are silent on the issue, you may not be including the sites-enabled directory. One simple way to tell that the site is being loaded is to set the error/access log path within your server block to a unique path, reload nginx, and check if the files are created.

Ensure the following include directive exists within the http context in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf.

http {   ...   include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*; }