Applicable to:
- Plesk Onyx for Linux
Symptoms
- During installing NodeJS, the following error can be observed in log file
/var/log/plesk/panel.logor directly in Plesk at Home page:
CONFIG_TEXT: ERR [panel] Apache config (14816524790.56007300) generation failed: Template_Exception: nginx: [emerg] unknown directive "passenger_root" in /etc/nginx/conf.d/phusion-passenger.conf:1
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed - Nginx test of configuration is failing:
# nginx -t
nginx: [emerg] unknown directive "passenger_root" in /etc/nginx/conf.d/phusion-passenger.conf:1
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed - Any changing of hosting settings at Plesk > Domains > example.com > Hosting Settings results in unresponsive website with error:
CONFIG_TEXT: 500 Internal server error
nginx
Cause
Nginx misconfiguration.
Resolution
- Connect to the server using SSH.
- Use any text editor to add the following directive into
/etc/nginx/nginx.conffile right before theevents {part:CONFIG_TEXT: include /etc/nginx/modules.conf.d/*.conf;
The result should looks like on the screenshot:
Warning: Make sure that it is added before other configurations includes (for example right after pid file), to load all modules before directive(s) used by some particular module will be declared.
- Make sure that configuration file
/etc/nginx/modules.conf.d/phusion-passenger.confwhich is loading phusion passenger module exists and has the following content:
# cat /etc/nginx/modules.conf.d/phusion-passenger.conf
load_module nginx/modules/ngx_http_passenger_module.so; - Restart nginx service:
# service nginx restart
Comments
4 comments
Unfortunately this didn't help, the include was there, the error still persists.
@anli, Please provide the output of the following commands:
# grep -r load_module /etc/nginx/
and
# cat /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
Worked for me thank you!
@Sabrina Cadena
Thank you for the feedback. Great that the issue is resolved.
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