I followed this process to installing nginx on my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Server http://library.linode.com/web-servers/nginx/installation/ubuntu-10.04-lucid
I got lost after the point of creating an init script to start nginx, and then calling /etc/init.d/nginx start. When I did that, I got the following error:
Starting nginx_main: Starting /opt/nginx/sbin/nginx...
nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: open() "/opt/nginx/logs/error.log" failed (13: Permission denied)
2012/03/16 18:17:27 [emerg] 859#0: open() "/opt/nginx/logs/access.log" failed (13: Permission denied)
The only way I can run it is if I use sudo
and it runs the process as root
, which is what I don't want.
I've chown
'd the entire directory (chown -R nginx:nginx /opt/nginx
) and I've also chmod -R 755
the directory as well.
Adding the user
directive as suggested by CS3 also gives me this error, but with an additional line.
Starting nginx_main: Starting /opt/nginx/sbin/nginx...
nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: open() "/opt/nginx/logs/error.log" failed (13: Permission denied)
2012/03/16 18:48:34 [warn] 1606#0: the "user" directive makes sense only if the master process runs with super-user privileges, ignored in /opt/nginx/conf/nginx.conf:2
2012/03/16 18:48:34 [emerg] 1606#0: open() "/opt/nginx/logs/access.log" failed (13: Permission denied)
Any ideas?