Nginx: Job for nginx.service failed because the control process exited

Question

I got a problem which I have been trying to fix for a few days now and I don\'t know what to do, have been looking for answers but all of those I found didn\'t help me.

Answer 1

In my case, nginx was not able to open the log file which is located here /var/log/nginx/error.log

This was because I had deleted the log directory to free up space in root (which turned out to be stupid)

I then created a log folder in var and an nginx folder in log.

Then simply run sudo service nginx start