Server fails to start with unknown variable in log

Francis Daly francis at daoine.org
Sun Feb 10 16:23:30 UTC 2019


On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 03:49:45PM +0000, Adam wrote:

Hi there,

> Performing sanity check on nginx configuration:
> nginx: [emerg] unknown "allow_visit" variable
> nginx: configuration file /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed

> So I ran:
> 
> cat /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf | grep "allow_visit"
> 
> with no result at all.

There may be other files "include"d from your nginx.conf.

> any pointers would help.

  nginx -T | grep -e 'configuration file\|allow_visit'

should show the mention of allow_visit; the previous configuration file
name is the one that uses it.

	f
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Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org


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