nginx: [error] open() ‘/usr/local/var/run/nginx.pid’ failed (2: No such file or directory) — Technolize Your Future

• What is the Error:
  nginx [error] open() “/usr/local/var/run/nginx.pid” failed (2: No such file or directory)
• Why is this Error:
  This error occurs if there is no nginx directory or no nginx.pid file found in the system.
• Reason for this Error:
  The reason is that every time you reboot the system, nginx.pid gets deleted automatically.

Solution 1

The first solution is to run commands to generate the missing file nginx.pid.

• Provide a specific config file path to Nginx command so that nginx.pid will be created if the file is not present.

sudo nginx -c /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf # -c stands configuration file.

• Reload nginx:

nginx -s reload

Solution 2

The second solution is to change the path of nginx.pid in the configuration file.

• Open the Nginx config file using the below command.

sudo vim /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

• Search for “nginx.pid;” and you should find it as commented code like below so just uncomment that line and save the file. (You can change the location from ‘/logs’ to something else as if you want)

# pid logs/nginx.pid; // remove # to uncomment this line.

• Run the same two commands as mentioned in the above ‘solution 1’ section to load the config file and start Nginx.

sudo nginx -c /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
nginx -s reload

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Hope this helps resolve your nginx issue.

Originally published at https://techtalkbook.com on August 16, 2020.