Nginx Config help!

[James_43]

Hi all,

Brand new to nginx, but it seems to be the rising star, and suited to hosting high volumes like I'm doing. However, I'm having trouble setting up the config files. A day of google searching hasn't really helped.

My nginx.conf looks like:

events {
    worker_connections 768;
    # multi_accept on;
}

http {
#   rewrite_log on;

    include mime.types;
    default_type       application/octet-stream;
    access_log         /var/log/nginx/access.log;
    sendfile           on;
#   tcp_nopush         on;
    keepalive_timeout  3;
#   tcp_nodelay        on;
#   gzip               on;
        #php max upload limit cannot be larger than this       
    client_max_body_size 13m;
    index              index.php index.html index.htm;

    # Upstream to abstract backend connection(s) for PHP.
    upstream php {
                #this should match value of "listen" directive in php-fpm pool
        server unix:/tmp/php-fpm.sock;
        #server 127.0.0.1:9000;
    }

}

include sites-enabled/*;

My sites-enabled looks like this:

server {
    listen :80 default_server;
    server_name ubuntutec.cloudapp.net;

    root /var/www/html/;

    index index.php;

    # Additional rules go here.
    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}

And the included config file looks like:

# WordPress single site rules.
# Designed to be included in any server {} block.

# This order might seem weird - this is attempted to match last if rules below fail.
# http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule
location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}

# Add trailing slash to */wp-admin requests.
rewrite /wp-admin$ $scheme://$host$uri/ permanent;

# Directives to send expires headers and turn off 404 error logging.
location ~* ^.+\.(ogg|ogv|svg|svgz|eot|otf|woff|mp4|ttf|rss|atom|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|ppt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf)$ {
       access_log off; log_not_found off; expires max;
}

# Uncomment one of the lines below for the appropriate caching plugin (if used).
#include global/wordpress-wp-super-cache.conf;
#include global/wordpress-w3-total-cache.conf;

# Pass all .php files onto a php-fpm/php-fcgi server.
location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) {
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(/.*)$;
    if (!-f $document_root$fastcgi_script_name) {
        return 404;
    }
    # This is a robust solution for path info security issue and works with "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1" in /etc/php.ini (default)

    include fastcgi.conf;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
#   fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
    fastcgi_pass php;
}

Everything looks pretty standard. The error I am getting browser side is Connection_Refused. I am getting no error logs in the Nginx logs. But when I restart Nginx I get: Job for Nginx.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See systemctl status nginx.service and journalctl -xe for details

Can someone spot anything out of place?

[cereal]

Hi, what you got from:

See systemctl status nginx.service and journalctl -xe for details

[James_43]

How do I access those logs? Typing those commands into the console just gives me an unknown command error.

[cereal]

If you don't have access to those commands then you may have to ask to your hosting helpdesk. You can also test the syntax of your configuration files:

nginx -t -c /path/to/nginx.conf

The -c flag is used to test a specific configuration file. Otherwise just run nginx -t

[James_43]

Thanks, nginx -t worked and told me what was going on!