# Cant start Nginx on Mac OS X **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [November 21, 2011, 4:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-start-nginx-on-mac-os-x/214068 "2011-11-21T04:24:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dubstep)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 4:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-start-nginx-on-mac-os-x/214068/1 "2011-11-21T04:24:00Z")
Sorry for the newbie question. I am new to nginx. i installed it successfully on my mac, but when i try to start it, i get this error nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: open() “/opt/local/var/log/nginx/error.log” failed (13: Permission denied) 2011/11/20 22:15:20 [emerg] 1620#0: open() “/opt/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf” failed (2: No such file or directory) Can someone please help me resolve this? Thank you Kofi Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Cant start Nginx on Mac OS X](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,218663,218663#msg-218663)** > > Sorry for the newbie question. I am new to nginx. i installed it successfully on my mac, but when i try to start it, i get this error nginx: \[alert\] could not open error log file: open() "/opt/local/var/log/nginx/error.log" failed (13:... ---
**Author:** ![scriptonian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@scriptonian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/scriptonian)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-start-nginx-on-mac-os-x/214068/2 "2011-11-21T04:26:28Z")
> > > Permission denied ## start nginx use root or sudo blog: [http://chenxiaoyu.org](http://chenxiaoyu.org) ---
**Author:** ![scriptonian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@scriptonian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/scriptonian)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 5:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-start-nginx-on-mac-os-x/214068/3 "2011-11-21T05:34:54Z")
super!.. one error went away, now i am left with just one nginx: [emerg] open() “/opt/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf” failed (2: No such file or directory) Any ideas why that is? Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: Cant start Nginx on Mac OS X](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,218663,218667#msg-218667)** > > Sorry for the newbie question. I am new to nginx. i installed it successfully on my mac, but when i try to start it, i get this error nginx: \[alert\] could not open error log file: open() "/opt/local/var/log/nginx/error.log" failed (13:... ---
**Author:** ![scriptonian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@scriptonian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/scriptonian)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 5:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-start-nginx-on-mac-os-x/214068/4 "2011-11-21T05:38:00Z")
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:34 AM, scriptonian [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > super!.. one error went away, now i am left with just one > > nginx: [emerg] open() “/opt/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf” failed (2: No > such file or directory) > > Any ideas why that is? …missing config file? – O\< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - [www.asciiribbon.org](http://www.asciiribbon.org) ---
**Author:** ![scriptonian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@scriptonian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/scriptonian)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 5:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-start-nginx-on-mac-os-x/214068/5 "2011-11-21T05:54:01Z")
Reposting… fastcgi.conf koi-win scgi\_params.example fastcgi.conf.example mime.types uwsgi\_params fastcgi\_params mime.types.example uwsgi\_params.example fastcgi\_params.example nginx.conf.example win-utf koi-utf scgi\_params Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: Cant start Nginx on Mac OS X](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,218663,218671#msg-218671)** > > Sorry for the newbie question. I am new to nginx. i installed it successfully on my mac, but when i try to start it, i get this error nginx: \[alert\] could not open error log file: open() "/opt/local/var/log/nginx/error.log" failed (13:... ---
**Author:** ![scriptonian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@scriptonian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/scriptonian)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 5:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-start-nginx-on-mac-os-x/214068/6 "2011-11-21T05:52:48Z")
Yes but why is it missing? 🙂 I installed the server ☹ … shouldn’t the installation put that file there during setup? i see only these files in the /etc/nginx/ folder fastcgi.conf koi-win scgi\_params.example fastcgi.conf.example mime.types uwsgi\_params fastcgi\_params mime.types.example uwsgi\_params.example fastcgi\_params.example nginx.conf.example win-utf koi-utf scgi\_params Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: Cant start Nginx on Mac OS X](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,218663,218670#msg-218670)** > > Sorry for the newbie question. I am new to nginx. i installed it successfully on my mac, but when i try to start it, i get this error nginx: \[alert\] could not open error log file: open() "/opt/local/var/log/nginx/error.log" failed (13:... ---
**Author:** ![scriptonian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@scriptonian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/scriptonian)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 5:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-start-nginx-on-mac-os-x/214068/7 "2011-11-21T05:56:29Z")
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:52 AM, scriptonian [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Yes but why is it missing? 🙂 > > I installed the server ☹ … shouldn’t the installation put that file > there during setup? Even if it did, you should edit the config anyway. The nginx.conf.example should help. – O\< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - [www.asciiribbon.org](http://www.asciiribbon.org) ---
**Author:** ![scriptonian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@scriptonian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/scriptonian)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-start-nginx-on-mac-os-x/214068/8 "2011-11-21T05:57:43Z")
在 2011-11-20日的 23:34 -0500，scriptonian写道： > * * * > > nginx mailing list > [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > [mailman.nginx.org archive](http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx) make sure that the path /opt/local/etc/nginx/ existed,and give it umask 775. also,do it under ROOT. – Best regards, Sharl.Jimh.Tsin (From China **Obviously Taiwan INCLUDED** ) Using Gmail? Please read this important notice: [Gmail — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software](http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/jstrap/gmail?10073). ---
**Author:** ![scriptonian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@scriptonian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/scriptonian)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-start-nginx-on-mac-os-x/214068/9 "2011-11-21T18:03:59Z")
Thanks so much guys. I got all the errors to go away… however, when i start the server i get this nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (48: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (48: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (48: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (48: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (48: Address already in use) nginx: [emerg] still could not bind() looks like a port conflict to me. i dont know. but i dont have any other servers running. when i hit [http://localhost/](http://localhost/) 404 Not Found ( nginx/1.0.8 ) Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: Cant start Nginx on Mac OS X](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,218663,218713#msg-218713)** > > Sorry for the newbie question. I am new to nginx. i installed it successfully on my mac, but when i try to start it, i get this error nginx: \[alert\] could not open error log file: open() "/opt/local/var/log/nginx/error.log" failed (13:... ---
**Author:** ![scriptonian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@scriptonian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/scriptonian)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 6:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-start-nginx-on-mac-os-x/214068/10 "2011-11-21T18:05:50Z")
and when i do nginx -s stop i can NOT even get a 404 error page. so something is working right at least. but i still have a blocker. Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: Cant start Nginx on Mac OS X](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,218663,218714#msg-218714)** > > Sorry for the newbie question. I am new to nginx. i installed it successfully on my mac, but when i try to start it, i get this error nginx: \[alert\] could not open error log file: open() "/opt/local/var/log/nginx/error.log" failed (13:...