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I am running Plesk on Debian Since i installed Plesk almost 6 months ago every time i restarted the server nginx would fail to start on boot and i would have to go and manually restart it. Now today i needed to restart the server again but this time i can't even manually restart nginx.

I get this:

Starting nginx (via systemctl): nginx.serviceJob for nginx.service failed.
See 'systemctl status nginx.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
failed!

systemctl status nginx.service returns:

● nginx.service - Startup script for nginx service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2016-03-09 23:00:15 MST; 25min ago
Process: 4723 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 4720 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/test $NGINX_ENABLED = yes (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Mar 09 23:00:15 fineartschool.net nginx[4723]: nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
Mar 09 23:00:15 fineartschool.net nginx[4723]: nginx: [emerg] bind() to 64.4.6.100:80 failed (99: Cannot assign requested address)
Mar 09 23:00:15 fineartschool.net nginx[4723]: nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
Mar 09 23:00:15 fineartschool.net systemd[1]: nginx.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Mar 09 23:00:15 fineartschool.net systemd[1]: Failed to start Startup script for nginx service.
Mar 09 23:00:15 fineartschool.net systemd[1]: Unit nginx.service entered failed state.

And journal -xn reads

-- Logs begin at Wed 2016-03-09 22:49:30 MST, end at Wed 2016-03-09 23:10:01 MST. --
Mar 09 23:05:01 fineartschool.net CRON[6067]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Mar 09 23:09:01 fineartschool.net CRON[7188]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Mar 09 23:09:01 fineartschool.net CRON[7189]: (root) CMD (  [ -x /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean ] && /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean)
Mar 09 23:09:01 fineartschool.net CRON[7188]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Mar 09 23:09:47 fineartschool.net CRON[4606]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Mar 09 23:10:01 fineartschool.net CRON[7505]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Mar 09 23:10:01 fineartschool.net CRON[7506]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Mar 09 23:10:01 fineartschool.net CRON[7507]: (root) CMD (/opt/psa/admin/bin/php -dauto_prepend_file=sdk.php '/opt/psa/admin/plib/modules/magicspam/script|
Mar 09 23:10:01 fineartschool.net CRON[7508]: (root) CMD (/opt/psa/admin/bin/php -dauto_prepend_file=sdk.php '/opt/psa/admin/plib/modules/plesk-mobile/scr
Mar 09 23:10:01 fineartschool.net CRON[7505]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root

and the nginx error log

2016/03/09 22:28:57 [emerg] 952#0: bind() to 64.4.6.100:80 failed (99: Cannot assign requested address)
2016/03/09 22:31:14 [emerg] 2675#0: bind() to 64.4.6.100:80 failed (99: Cannot assign requested address)
2016/03/09 22:34:56 [emerg] 914#0: bind() to 64.4.6.100:80 failed (99: Cannot assign requested address)
2016/03/09 22:38:36 [emerg] 2670#0: bind() to 64.4.6.100:80 failed (99: Cannot assign requested address)
2016/03/09 22:39:26 [emerg] 941#0: bind() to 64.4.6.100:80 failed (99: Cannot assign requested address)
2016/03/09 22:42:17 [emerg] 2795#0: bind() to 64.4.6.100:80 failed (99: Cannot assign requested address)
2016/03/09 22:42:32 [emerg] 2912#0: bind() to 64.4.6.100:80 failed (99: Cannot assign requested address)
2016/03/09 22:46:17 [emerg] 4026#0: bind() to 64.4.6.100:80 failed (99: Cannot assign requested address)
2016/03/09 22:46:26 [emerg] 4092#0: bind() to 64.4.6.100:80 failed (99: Cannot assign requested address)
2016/03/09 22:49:49 [emerg] 795#0: bind() to 64.4.6.100:80 failed (99: Cannot assign requested address)
2016/03/09 22:52:31 [emerg] 2517#0: bind() to 64.4.6.100:80 failed (99: Cannot assign requested address)
2016/03/09 23:00:15 [emerg] 4723#0: bind() to 64.4.6.100:80 failed (99: Cannot assign requested address)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

VantaRabbit
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Well this is embarrassing. So the after looking at the recurring pattern "(99: Cannot assign requested address)" I decided to look at the servers assigned IP Address and it turns out it didn't pick up it's static IP Address instead picked up a dynamic IP Address.

After correcting this i was able to restart nginx. Hopefully someone else will be able to benefit from this.

VantaRabbit
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