nginx.conf and nginx.pid users and permissions

Question

I\'m embarking on watching my NGINX error.log files at level: warn... probably a silly idea and will cause me to crash my server as I work out any bugs happening, but hey, we\'r

Answer 1

I got the same error on my Centos 7 server today.

nginx.pid" failed (13: Permission denied)

For me, it turned out to be a problem with SELinux. I did the following to make it work again:

systemctl stop nginx
touch /var/run/nginx.pid
chcon -u system_u -t httpd_var_run_t /var/run/nginx.pid
systemctl start nginx

running

ls -Z nginx.pid

should output

-rw-r--r--. root root system_u:object_r:httpd_var_run_t:s0 nginx.pid