Nginx wont start after IP change

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Please, I change my network interface, which resulted in an IP change, and now my Nginx web server won’t start. I need help. I have added the new IP in the networks settings

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systemctl status Nginx

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it give me “Unit Nginx.service could not be found.”

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Use nginx instead of Nginx

systemctl status nginx

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Ok now I get this

× nginx.service - nginx - high performance web server

Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2023-08-06 13:55:24 WAT; 8min ago

Docs: nginx documentation

Process: 38007 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nginx -c /etc/nginx/nginx.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

CPU: 13ms

Aug 06 13:55:24 fs2.disk.ng systemd[1]: Starting nginx - high performance web server…

Aug 06 13:55:24 fs2.disk.ng nginx[38007]: nginx: [warn] the “listen … http2” directive is deprecated, use the “http2” directive instead in /etc/nginx/conf.d/167.235.96.232.conf:37

Aug 06 13:55:24 fs2.disk.ng nginx[38007]: nginx: [emerg] bind() to 167.235.34.72:80 failed (99: Cannot assign requested address)

Aug 06 13:55:24 fs2.disk.ng systemd[1]: nginx.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

Aug 06 13:55:24 fs2.disk.ng systemd[1]: nginx.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.

Aug 06 13:55:24 fs2.disk.ng systemd[1]: Failed to start nginx - high performance web server.

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Yes, it is because your old ip.

You could try to execute this command as root:

v-update-sys-ip

WARNING: Before execute above command, please, make sure you have a full backup, or better a snapshot of your system

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Worked Nginx is now running, Thank you.

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