nginx - nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use)

Question

All of a sudden I am getting the below nginx error

 * Restarting nginx
 * Stopping nginx nginx
   ...done.
 * Starting nginx nginx
nginx: [emerg] bind() to [         


        

Answer 1

My case is different, I had to kill running Nginx to restart it.

Instead of

sudo systemctl restart nginx

I had to use:

sudo pkill -f nginx & wait $!
sudo systemctl start nginx