Error in Plesk: “worker_rlimit_nofile” directive is duplicate

Symptoms

• Plesk shows one of these errors

  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

  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

Cause

The nginx directive from the error is defined twice in the configuration.

Resolution

1. Connect to the server over SSH

2. Edit the file from the error message

   # vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/nginx.conf

3. Comment the duplicate directive by adding # at the beginning of the line

   #worker_rlimit_nofile 20480;

4. If nginx is running, reload it

   # service nginx reload

   If it's down, run these commands to start it

   # plesk sbin nginxmng -d
   # plesk sbin nginxmng -e