Nginx fails to start with error [nginx: [emerg] open() "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf" failed (13: Permission denied)]
Issue
- Nginx fails to start with the following message.
nginx: [emerg] open() "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf" failed (13: Permission denied)
nginx[1974156]: nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- 8.x,9.x
- Nginx
- 1.20, 1.22, 1.24
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