I normally go for Apache as my go-to webserver, lately however I got a liking to Nginx, for no real reasons except for the fact it has a nicer config layout. (a bad reason is a reason non the less) So when I installed Bash for Windows 10, I when and tried Nginx, sadly it didn’t work, and still doesn’t work nicely. I however got it running, this is how : First, install Nginx.
Then I wanted to ignite Nginx, but that did not work, starting Nginx failed cause of port 80 was in use.
2016/06/24 11:37:22 [emerg] 2710#0: bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
Since I am running two systems (Linux and Windows 10) there are plenty of places to look. I started with the location I know best and was most unlikely the problem : Linux. Using netstat -tulpn | grep 80 I verified nothing was running on this freshly installed UbuntuBash. So onto W10, I know Skype, Apache, … uses port 80, but that did not run, so the hunt continued. I finally found -using resmon.exe– under Listener-port the problem, port 80 was being used by System (PID 4) … not something you can easily kill …
PID 4 (Sytem) was listening on port 80. (no longer seen here)
I dug a bit further and found this useful post. You have to stop some service, this is done using :
- windows key + x
- select console (admin)
- run
net stop http
net stop http in Windows 10 (in dutch)
C:\WINDOWS\system32>net stop http
De volgende services zijn afhankelijk van de HTTP Service-service.
Als u de HTTP Service-service stopt, worden deze services eveneens gestopt.
World Wide Web Publishing-service
SSDP Discovery
Print Spooler
HomeGroup Provider
Function Discovery Resource Publication
Function Discovery Provider Host
Wilt u doorgaan met deze bewerking? (J/N) [N]: j
De World Wide Web Publishing-service-service wordt gestopt.
De World Wide Web Publishing-service-service is gestopt.
De SSDP Discovery-service wordt gestopt.
De SSDP Discovery-service is gestopt.
De Print Spooler-service wordt gestopt.
De Print Spooler-service is gestopt.
De HomeGroup Provider-service wordt gestopt.
De HomeGroup Provider-service is gestopt.
De Function Discovery Resource Publication-service wordt gestopt.
De Function Discovery Resource Publication-service is gestopt.
De Function Discovery Provider Host-service wordt gestopt.
De Function Discovery Provider Host-service is gestopt.
De HTTP Service-service is gestopt.
After that I retried nginx to once again be shown an error :
2806#0: ioctl(FIOASYNC) failed while spawning "worker process" (22: Invalid argument)
That was solved using this -still open- bugreport on github. The essence is add the following to /etc/nginx/nginx.conf :
master_process off;
#daemon off;
Now to be honest I have got no idea, what any of those parameters do. (note) I tried w/o the daemon parameter and it works as well, so I only use master_process and everything seems to “work”. (different from the solution on github!)
After this, Nginx is running nicely on my BashOnWindows. Pretty nice work, Windows !
// update 28/06
On my second machine I also had to change /etc/nginx/sites-available/default the following line :
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
to
server {
listen 80 default_server;
#listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
This probably cause some ipv6 problem. (this is development only anyway!)
understand that company’s need to make money, but if they try to charge double for a single product, that’s where I draw the line. Telenet (a network provider) wants to track both to what you look at on TV and internet use. Basically they collect your information and sell it of to advertisement company’s to target you with crappy ads that are more focused on you, as if the premium price we pay Telenet is not enough for there investors…
