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rated 0 times [ 2] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 2588 / 2 Years ago, thu, september 22, 2022, 5:02:54

after removing nginx, I re-installed it with sudo apt-get install nginx.

Output indicated that the installation was successful.

But there's no directory /etc/nginx and sudo service nginx start fails because it can't read the config file.

How can I fix this?

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answered 2 Years ago ndaavi · Accepted Answer

The configuration files are provided by the nginx-common package, not nginx. Therefore you have to purge nginx-common:

sudo apt-get purge nginx-common

sudo apt-get install nginx

(nginx depends on nginx-common, removing nginx-common will also remove nginx.)

There is no need to add the nginx PPA just for getting back the configuration files.