/etc/init.d/nginx not executable

Question

I searched on the internet for a while now and I don't find a solution so I am asking here: My question is, why is this file (/etc/init.d/nginx) not executeable?

I was following the tutorial of Alex yesterday and I got into an issue. Everything worked until the service nginx restart-command. When I try to run this command I will get

 nginx: You don't have permissions to execute nginx.

After googling some time I found a potential answer, but this was already done in the tutorial/walkthrough of Alex:

 $ sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/nginx

Some info if you don't want to read the tutorial:

• I am using Nginx (as you will know when reading this bit)
• It's installed it with Passenger and then imported a Nginx Init-script and the nginx.conf file from scratch.
• Oh and I am running Debian instead of Ubuntu, but that shouldn;t be the problem, or?

So I would be very thankful if anyone could help me. Thanks!

Sg

why not run sudo service instead of just service – Optometrist

I also tried ’sudo’ but it also doesn't help. I am also the root user. – Sg

sudo service nginx start said no permissions ? – Optometrist

From today on it just don't return anything. – Sg

then maybe there is something wrong with your nginx, try running sudo nginx -t i think that is how you test your nginx configuration – Optometrist

So, now the next problem is: I get permission error. But I figured out that I can use the ’nginx’ command to start the server including Passenger. Thanks for your help. But I also would like to access the init script. – Sg

Did you ever figure out the problem? – Fief

I am also having the same problem did you find solution for this – Hephzipa

@Magnum I reseted my server and done it after my own instructions: gist.github.com/iDuuck/708a7e2aa0d851a738ed – Sg

Answer 1

Make sure the variables in your init script are correct:

Here's an example script: http://wiki.nginx.org/Nginx-init-ubuntu

For instance, I had to change NGINX_CONF_FILE="/usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf" to NGINX_CONF_FILE="/etc/nginx/nginx.conf" and it solved my problem.

Braden