nginx autostart after reboot

[Peter_Platzer]

Hi!

I installed nginx on RevPi with:

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sudo apt install nginx

I was able to start it after installation with

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sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start

and it worked fine.

After a reboot the nginx was not running any more.
I thought it would be possible to enable autostart with

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sudo systemctl enable nginx

but this does not work.
I see the following erorrs in the daemon.log:

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nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: open() "/var/log/nginx/error.log" failed (2: No such file or directory)
nginx[2601]: 2024/08/03 18:16:18 [emerg] 2601#2601: open() "/var/log/nginx/access.log" failed (2: No such file or directory)
nginx[2601]: nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
systemd[1]: nginx.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
nginx.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

I tried to start it with

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sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start

But this does not work:

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Starting nginx (via systemctl): nginx.serviceJob for nginx.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status nginx.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
 failed!

If I create the directories and files.

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sudo mkdir /var/log/nginx
cd nginx
sudo nano access.log
sudo nano error.log

it is possible to start it again with:

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sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start

As /var/log/ is a tmpfs file system directories and files are gone after reboot.

How is it possible to create directories and files at boot time befor starting nginx?
Or how do I get the nginx autostart working?

[Peter_Platzer]

I solved it with a pyhton programm after boot using revpipyload.

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    if os.path.exists('/var/log/nginx')== False:
        os.system('sudo mkdir /var/log/nginx')
        os.system('sudo touch /var/log/nginx/access.log')
        os.system('sudo touch /var/log/nginx/error.log')
        os.system('sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start')

and it works fine.

[u.biakoup]

Hello Peter,

I am happy to hear that you solved the problem.
Enjoy it!
Best Regards

Ulrich Kouatang Biakoup | field application engineer