Today while working on a project, I restarted the server and found the web service was inaccessible. The following error appeared:
nginx: [error] open() "/usr/local/nginx/logs/nginx.pid" failed (2: No such file or directory)
After navigating to the logs directory, I confirmed that the nginx.pid file was indeed missing.
Solution:
[root@localhost ]# /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -c /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
That is, specify the configuration file path when starting the server.