Fix Ubuntu ( nginx: unrecognized service )

The seventh step manually starts nginx:

sudo service nginx start

but fails with the following error:

nginx: unrecognized service

Answers

The nginx: unrecognized service error means the startup scripts need to be created.
Fortunately the startup scripts have already been written.

We can fetch them with wget and set them up following these steps:

Code:

# Download nginx startup script
wget -O init-deb.sh https://www.linode.com/docs/assets/660-init-deb.sh

# Move the script to the init.d directory & make executable
sudo mv init-deb.sh /etc/init.d/nginx
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/nginx

# Add nginx to the system startup
sudo /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f nginx defaults

Now we can control nginx using:

Code:

sudo service nginx stop
sudo service nginx start
sudo service nginx restart
sudo service nginx reload