nginx won't start "Address is already in use"

[SpikeyGG]

I'm trying to set up the nginx plugin on my OPNsense and it seems I keep running into this problem where I try to restart the service and it completely breaks. Now when I try to start it, I get this:

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root@opnsense:~ # service nginx start
Performing sanity check on nginx configuration:
nginx: the configuration file /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful
Starting nginx.
nginx: [emerg] bind() to unix:/var/run/nginx_status.sock failed (48: Address already in use)
nginx: [emerg] bind() to unix:/var/run/nginx_status.sock failed (48: Address already in use)
nginx: [emerg] bind() to unix:/var/run/nginx_status.sock failed (48: Address already in use)
nginx: [emerg] bind() to unix:/var/run/nginx_status.sock failed (48: Address already in use)
nginx: [emerg] bind() to unix:/var/run/nginx_status.sock failed (48: Address already in use)
nginx: [emerg] still could not bind()
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/nginx: WARNING: failed to start nginx
root@opnsense:~ # ps auxww |grep nginx
root     24076   0.0  0.0 1060888  3196  0  R+   21:25       0:00.00 grep nginx
root@opnsense:~ # service nginx status
nginx is not running.
root@opnsense:~ # ls -la /var/run/nginx*
-rw-r-----  1 root  wheel  0 Feb 13 20:40 /var/run/nginx.pid
srw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  0 Feb 13 20:40 /var/run/nginx_status.sock
root@opnsense:~ #


I found this thread from the 19.1 Legacy Series archive but there was no resolution. As you can see the nginx service isn't running. I've tried deleting the 0-byte files in /var/run and they just get recreated when the service start is attempted.

I tried removing a lot of the config options I set in the nginx plugin options but it still doesn't start up. I think it gets thrown into a broken state and can no longer be started. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?

[SpikeyGG]

I did relocate the OPNsense web gui ports already. Also, the NGINX server was started and working, I saw it acting as a reverse-proxy before and I was tweaking the config files and tried to restart it and it never came back on...

[Fright]

NGINX server was started and working, I saw it acting as a reverse-proxy before and I was tweaking the config files and tried to restart

try to restart OPN after you revert config files to "working" state