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I have some problems to install nginx pkg (nginx-full) on debian jessie

# apt-get install nginx-full
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  nginx-common
Suggested packages:
  fcgiwrap nginx-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  nginx-common nginx-full
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 510 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1.271 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Get:1 http://debian.c3sl.ufpr.br/debian/ jessie/main nginx-common all 1.6.1-1 [83,6 kB]
Get:2 http://debian.c3sl.ufpr.br/debian/ jessie/main nginx-full amd64 1.6.1-1+b1 [427 kB]
Fetched 510 kB in 1s (266 kB/s)     
Selecting previously unselected package nginx-common.
(Reading database ... 170540 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../nginx-common_1.6.1-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking nginx-common (1.6.1-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package nginx-full.
Preparing to unpack .../nginx-full_1.6.1-1+b1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking nginx-full (1.6.1-1+b1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ...
Setting up nginx-common (1.6.1-1) ...
Setting up nginx-full (1.6.1-1+b1) ...
Job for nginx.service failed. See 'systemctl status nginx.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript nginx, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package nginx-full (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nginx-full
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

# systemctl status nginx.service
nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sex 2014-09-05 11:39:46 BRT; 1s ago
  Process: 2972 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g daemon on; master_process on; (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

#journalctl -xn
No journal files were found.

Someone know how to fix it?

gnomex
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    Can you add the output of 'systemctl status nginx.service' and 'journalctl -xn' – squareborg Sep 05 '14 at 15:09
  • # systemctl status nginx.service is there, and the journalctl -xn returns "No journal files were found." – gnomex Sep 05 '14 at 16:25
  • I had the same issue, since I installed lighttpd first. It would be great, if nginx would provide a better error message, though @Shutupsquare: for me that output was useless and didn't allow concluding that the port was already blocked... – Chris Feb 25 '15 at 15:40

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A similar issue was reported on Debian bug #754407. In the end it was just the port 80 being taken by other process (Apache2). Might this be your case as well?

Gheesh
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  • Having read the bug, this really should fail more gracefully and informatively. It should also be possible to switch to another port if the current port is in use. I think postgresql does something like this for example. – Faheem Mitha Sep 10 '14 at 22:26
  • The bug has been fixed at version 1.6.1-2. Now, all things work perfectly – gnomex Sep 15 '14 at 12:10
  • @gnomex nope, 1.9.10-1 in Stretch and I had to stop `apache2` to install `nginx-full`. – berbt Feb 28 '16 at 19:30
  • In my case Varnish was using port 80 as I tried to install nginx for 443. Thanks for the tip – NoChecksum Mar 15 '16 at 20:01
  • 2020 and I just got this error. Thank you ! – ncenerar Jun 28 '20 at 09:18
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Stop apache2

service apache2 stop

then install nginx

apt-get install nginx

Then celebrate it!

yaegashi
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Kapanet
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in my case I executed

sudo apt-get remove nginx* --purge after that I installed nginx-common

sudo apt-get install nginx-common

then I installed nginx

sudo apt-get install nginx

after this I typed ip in browser and it worked

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I had the same problem. I DO NOT have Apache, and nothing else was blocking my port 80. I could NOT install nginx with 

sudo apt-get install nginx

nor with 

sudo apt-get install nginx-common nginx-full

After one week I stumbled over this little blog: https://etc.banana.fish/?p=75

In this blog, the solution is:

  1. Install nginx-common: sudo apt-get install nginx-common
  2. Remove listen [::]:80 default_server; from /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default (I made this using the root-user)
  3. Just to be sure, I did reboot my server.
  4. Just to be sure twice, I did sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get upgrade.
  5. Now I finally called sudo apt-get install nginx-full and it worked!

Afterwords I could see the Titlescreen of nginx, when I typed in the IP of my remote server!

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I encounter this issue when apt-get remove nginx and apt-get automove nginx, and after than I manually remove the nginx folder. When I apt-get install nginx again, this issue comes out.

~# apt-get install

nginx Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done nginx is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 140 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Setting up nginx-full (1.6.2-5+deb8u4) ... Job for nginx.service failed. See 'systemctl status nginx.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript nginx, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing package nginx-full (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nginx: nginx depends on nginx-full (>= 1.6.2-5+deb8u4) | nginx-light (>= 1.6.2-5+deb8u4) | nginx-extras (>= 1.6.2-5+deb8u4); however:
Package nginx-full is not configured yet. Package nginx-light is not installed. Package nginx-extras is not installed. nginx depends on nginx-full (<< 1.6.2-5+deb8u4.1~) | nginx-light (<< 1.6.2-5+deb8u4.1~) | nginx-extras (<< 1.6.2-5+deb8u4.1~); however: Package nginx-full is not configured yet. Package nginx-light is not installed.
Package nginx-extras is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package nginx (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: nginx-full nginx E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

and 

~# systemctl status nginx.service

nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2017-03-21 04:35:29 EDT; 1min 33s ago
Process: 19912 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g daemon on; master_process on; (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 18408 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Mar 21 04:35:29 dayinhu nginx[19912]: nginx: [emerg] open() "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf" failed (2: No such file or directory) Mar 21 04:35:29 dayinhu nginx[19912]: nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed Mar 21 04:35:29 dayinhu systemd[1]: nginx.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Mar 21 04:35:29 dayinhu systemd[1]: Failed to start A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server. Mar 21 04:35:29 dayinhu systemd[1]: Unit nginx.service entered failed state.

It's said the nginx.conf lost, I tryed many times with no success.

Finally I fixed by,

apt-get purge nginx nginx-common nginx-full
apt-get install nginx
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in my case the error is the server has IPv6 disabled. just edit nginx configuration files to fix ( for example : /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default ) and restart nginx demon.

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I was having the same problem. The advice about Apache wasn't relevant, as I'd actively uninstalled it during setup.

Turns out I was seeing the result of a conflict between nginx's config file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and the service script at /lib/systemd/system/nginx.service.

Specifically, the service script was starting nginx with some options, including daemon on:

$ cat /lib/systemd/system/nginx.service
...
[Service]
...
ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g 'daemon on; master_process on;'
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nginx -g 'daemon on; master_process on;'
ExecReload=/usr/sbin/nginx -g 'daemon on; master_process on;' -s reload
...

I ran /usr/sbin/nginx -g 'daemon on; master_process on;' directly on the terminal and got the following error:

nginx: [emerg] "daemon" directive is duplicate in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:1

I took a look in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and found (on line 1):

daemon off;

Commenting this out and running sudo apt-get -f install resolved the problem.

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To install NGINX without stopping previous web server do :

sudo apt install nginx

To have the config, then :

sudo unlink /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

Then redo the install :

sudo apt install nginx

And it works !

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  1. if you have skype: switch skype port 80 to 443
  2. stop apache2 service
  3. install nginx
  4. restart apache2
  5. apt-get update
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