nginx dead but pid file exists

[Christian Bönning]

Hi,

I've no idea what happened, but may be a look into the error log may help. 

What you can do to prevent this kind of issue is to use monitoring on that server. I for one use use monit on my servers to make sure services are running and will be restarted in case a service crashes. 

Regards,
Christian

Am 20.10.2012 um 09:55 schrieb "nnttoo" <nginx-forum at nginx.us>:

> I had this problem a few times, "nginx dead but pid file exists"
> 
> My site suddenly can not access, after I typed "service nginx status" and
> the answer is "nginx dead but pid file exists", what happened to my vps?
> 
> if possible, how to make the nginx reload / restart automatically if it
> happens again.
> 
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,232050,232050#msg-232050
> 
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