Having difficulty getting your NGinix service working on the Digital Ocean install instructions?

Recently I’ve setup a Ruby web application service with the instructions from Digital Ocean. The instructions are great, however they do not mention how to start the Nginix process up on startup.

The command to start the service on boot [under Centos] is:

sudo chkconfig --levels 235 nginx on

However their start script would prevent you from doing that as that it is not a service script that is compatible with chkconfig. The error message that will be given is: service nginx does not support chkconfig.

To fix it, add the following comments to the top of the script (/etc/init.d/nginix) right after the first line (#!/bin/sh)

### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: nginx # Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs # Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: S 0 1 6 # Short-Description: nginx initscript # Description: nginx ### END INIT INFO