Restarted NGINX and lost access to my sites

fisher05 · March 2, 2022, 2:25pm

Hi everyone,

I thought I would share my experience. I’ve been with Hestia since 1.2.X and have taken upgrades up to 1.5.8 I restarted NGINX through the control panel last night and all my sites dropped and started defaulting to the skel page or showing the 521 for the cloudflare enabled domains.

I could not figure out what the issue was, I know 521 errors often indicate firewall fail2ban has kicked in but I added the cloudflare IP list and I was unable to get my sites back. If I removed cloudflare proxy from the cloudflare enabled domains I would see the skel page.

I checked the NGINX config for each of the domains and they would point to the /public_html/ for each of the domains as expected.

I checked various logs Error, Access, Apache, NGINX, PHP but wasn’t able to track down the issue.

I’d love to know where I was going wrong, I even updated to 1.5.8 - 1.5.9 and restarted the VPS
multiple times but could only see the skel page across all the domains.

In the end I used the amazing hestiacp back-up feature and restored my users to a fresh installation of hestiacp and restored the access to my sites.

My reason for the restarting NGINX? - I was getting a open() (13: Permission Denied) error for /var/cache/nginx/client_temp and decided I would rename client_temp and restarted NGINX to reset the permissions.

jlguerrero · March 2, 2022, 2:29pm

What is the output of nginx -t
?

fisher05 · March 2, 2022, 2:59pm

nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

eris · March 2, 2022, 3:36pm

It looks like you have overwritten default config file of nginx

Check /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

fisher05 · March 2, 2022, 4:03pm

yep thats it! thanks both.

I’ve tried the rebuild command for the admin user but it hasn’t rebuild the config it was before.

Restore to this?

github.com

hestiacp/hestiacp/blob/main/install/rhel/nginx/nginx.conf

# Server globals
user                    apache;
worker_processes        auto;
worker_rlimit_nofile    65535;
error_log               /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid                     /var/run/nginx.pid;

# Worker config
events {
        worker_connections  1024;
        use                 epoll;
        multi_accept        on;
}

http {
    # Main settings
    sendfile                        on;
    tcp_nopush                      on;
    tcp_nodelay                     on;
    client_header_timeout           180s;

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eris · March 2, 2022, 4:31pm

github.com

hestiacp/hestiacp/blob/main/install/deb/nginx/nginx.conf

# Server globals
user                    www-data;
worker_processes        auto;
worker_rlimit_nofile    65535;
error_log               /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid                     /var/run/nginx.pid;

include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf;

# Worker config
events {
        worker_connections  1024;
        use                 epoll;
        multi_accept        on;
}

http {
    # Main settings
    sendfile                        on;
    tcp_nopush                      on;

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Is more up to date

system · April 1, 2022, 4:31pm

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