Error in Plesk: "worker_rlimit_nofile" directive is duplicate

[mahesh]

Symptoms

• The following error is shown in Plesk:

New configuration files for the Apache web server were not created due to the errors in configuration templates: nginx: [emerg] "worker_rlimit_nofile" directive is duplicate in /etc/nginx/ulimit.global_params:1 nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed

or

New configuration files for the Apache web server were not created due to the errors in configuration templates: nginx: [emerg] "gzip" directive is duplicate in /etc/nginx/conf.d/nginx.conf:2 nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed

• It might not be possible to enable nginx support with the error:

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#/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/nginxmng -e
nginx: [emerg] "worker_rlimit_nofile" directive is duplicate in /etc/nginx/ulimit.global_params:1

• The nginx configuration test fails:

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#nginx -t
nginx: [emerg] "worker_rlimit_nofile" directive is duplicate in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:45
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed

• The Nginx directive defined in the error message (I.E.: worker_rlimit_nofile or gzip), is defined in the following configuration files:

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]#grep -r worker_rlimit_nofile /etc/nginx/ | grep -v "#"
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:worker_rlimit_nofile 20480;
/etc/nginx/ulimit.global_params:worker_rlimit_nofile 65536;
Cause
The Nginx directive returned in the error/s message is defined twice

Resolution
1.Connect to the server using SSH .

2.Open the file from the error message in text editor and comment the duplicated directive with "#":

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#cat /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
#worker_rlimit_nofile 20480;
Note: In the example above the directive is worker_rlimit_nofile

3.If Nginx was not working, re-enable it with the commands:

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#/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/nginxmng -d
# /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/nginxmng -e
If it was already working, just reload it as follows:

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#service nginx reload
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