Why I get this error laravel-worker: ERROR (no such group)

Question

I followed the official Laravel doc to start queue in the background using supervisor in Centos 7.

But whene I run this command sudo supervisorctl start laravel-worker:* I get this error laravel-worker: ERROR (no such group)

Documentation: https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/queues#supervisor-configuration

Answer 1

I tested it out and created a new server with no supervisor configurations at all. These were my steps to get it running:

# 1. create the config file, see below for content
vi /etc/supervisor/conf.d/laravel-worker.conf

# 2. Reload the daemon's configuration files
supervisorctl reread
> laravel-worker: available

# 3. Reload config and add/remove as necessary
supervisorctl update
> laravel-worker: added process group

# 4. Start all processes of the group "laravel-worker"
supervisorctl start laravel-worker:*

# 5. Get status for all processes of the group "laravel-worker"
supervisorctl status laravel-worker:*
> laravel-worker:laravel-worker_00   RUNNING   pid 23758, uptime 0:00:16
> laravel-worker:laravel-worker_01   RUNNING   pid 23759, uptime 0:00:16

# 6. After a change in php sources you have to restart the queue, since queue:work does run as daemon
php artisan queue:restart
> Broadcasting queue restart signal.

/etc/supervisor/conf.d/laravel-worker.conf

[program:laravel-worker]
process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
command=php /var/www/artisan queue:work --sleep=3 --tries=2
autostart=true
autorestart=true
user=www-data
numprocs=2
redirect_stderr=true
stdout_logfile=/var/www/storage/logs/supervisor_queue-work.log

Answer 2

I've the same problem on my cloud based vps. Please check the bottom of supervisord.conf file.

You can find it on

nano /etc/supervisord.conf

You should carry the [includes] section on the configuration file. If the section looks like above.

[include]
files = supervisord.d/*.ini

change the files parameter extension to .conf instead

[include]
files = supervisord.d/*.conf

otherwise supervisor can not find the laravel-worker configuration.