nginx error: (99: Cannot assign requested address)

Question

I am running Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 and nginx 0.7.65, and when I try starting my nginx server:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start

I get the followin

Answer 1

As kirpit mentioned above you'll want to allow linux processes to bind to a local IP address:

nano /etc/sysctl.conf

# allow processes to bind to the non-local address
net.ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind = 1

sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf

Then you want to add the private ip address that is associated with your elastic ip and add that to your sites config:

nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com

Reload nginx:

service nginx reload

All done!