Nginx Nginx conf file syntax error. I'm stumped

I have a very simple nginx.conf file that I tried to test but couldn't file out why nginx complained.

Code:

server {
      listen   80;
       server_name mfeapp.mydomain.com

       server_name 10.10.10.10;
       # note that these lines are originally from the "location /" block
       root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
       index index.php index.html index.htm;
 
       location / {
          try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
      }
      error_page 404 /404.html;
      error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
      location = /50x.html {
          root /usr/share/nginx/html;
      }

      location ~ \.php$ {
          try_files $uri =404;
          fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
          fastcgi_index index.php;
          fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
          include fastcgi_params;
      }
 }

When I tested the conf using the nginx command, it will report this

Code:

nginx -c /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf -t
nginx: [emerg] "server" directive is not allowed here in /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:1

I'm stumped. Not sure what else to look at.

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After trying to get CMM to run on RH 7.3 was not successful, I tried to do it the usual way, installed nginx, php separately. I looked at many tutorials on how to get a simple nginx installation working and still couldn't figure out why my nginx does not work.

@eva2000 would really appreciate if you can provide some hints, whenever you can.

After yum install nginx, I have to conf files. I only edit the default.conf file

Here is the content of /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Code:

user  nginx;
worker_processes  1;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    keepalive_timeout  65;

    gzip  on;

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}

Here is content of /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

Code:

server {
      listen 80;
       server_name mfeapp1v.domain.com 10.1.105.62;

       # note that these lines are originally from the "location /"
       # block
       root /usr/share/nginx/html;
       index index.php index.html index.htm;

       location / {
          try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
      }
      error_page 404 /404.html;
      error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
      location = /50x.html {
          root /usr/share/nginx/html;
      }

      location ~ \.php$ {
          try_files $uri =404;
          fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
          fastcgi_index index.php;
          fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
          include fastcgi_params;
      }
 }

Then I do a nginx config file test

Code:

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

I make sure both nginx and php-fpm services are running

Code:

systemctl status php-fpm.service -l
● php-fpm.service - The PHP FastCGI Process Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/php-fpm.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2017-10-18 10:21:41 EDT; 1 day 2h ago
 Main PID: 24625 (php-fpm)
   Status: "Processes active: 0, idle: 5, Requests: 0, slow: 0, Traffic: 0req/sec"
   CGroup: /system.slice/php-fpm.service
           ├─24625 php-fpm: master process (/etc/php-fpm.conf
           ├─24626 php-fpm: pool www
           ├─24627 php-fpm: pool www
           ├─24628 php-fpm: pool www
           ├─24629 php-fpm: pool www
           └─24630 php-fpm: pool www

Oct 18 10:21:41 mfeapp1v.domain,com systemd[1]: Starting The PHP FastCGI Process Manager...
Oct 18 10:21:41 mfeapp1v.domain.com systemd[1]: Started The PHP FastCGIProcess Manager.

Code:

systemctl status nginx.service -l
● nginx.service - nginx - high performance web server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2017-10-19 12:21:16 EDT; 5min ago
     Docs: http://nginx.org/en/docs/
 Main PID: 451 (nginx)
   CGroup: /system.slice/nginx.service
           ├─451 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -c /etc/nginx/nginx.con
           └─452 nginx: worker process

Oct 19 12:21:16 mfeapp1v.domain.com systemd[1]: Starting nginx - high performance web server...
Oct 19 12:21:16 mfeapp1v.domain.com nginx[448]: nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
Oct 19 12:21:16 mfeapp1v.domain.com nginx[448]: nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful
Oct 19 12:21:16 mfeapp1v.domain.com systemd[1]: Failed to read PID fromfile /var/run/nginx.pid: Invalid argument
Oct 19 12:21:16 mfeapp1v.domain.com systemd[1]: Started nginx - high performance web server.

When I go to the address 10.1.105.62, I got a blank page with this info

Code:

This site can’t be reached
10.1.105.62 refused to connect.

Try:

[LIST]
[*]Checking the connection
[*]Checking the proxy and the firewall
[/LIST]
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

However, if I try to get the header of the site, this is what I get

Code:

##curl -I 10.1.105.62
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.13.6
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 16:29:48 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 612
Last-Modified: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:59:40 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
ETag: "59dcee6c-264"
Accept-Ranges: bytes

I was expecting the usual welcome Nginx page. What do I miss @eva2000 ?

 

That's it. Stopping firewall allows me to see the nginx welcome page.
Since this is not CMM, I have to google on how to open a port

Code:

sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=80/tcp --permanent
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

Thanks George.