id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	uname	nginx_version
1289	Nginx 1.12.0 unable to start after initial installation on RHEL 7 if access_log is uncommented	shekharshan@…		"On RHEL 7 I installed Nginx by adding a yum repo

[nginx]
name=nginx repo
baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/rhel/7/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
enablied=1

After installation I updated /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf and uncommented the line 

access_log  /var/log/nginx/log/host.access.log  main;

Then I tried to start the nginx.service systemd unit 

-- Unit nginx.service has begun starting up.
Jun 05 16:43:23 nginx[2960]: nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
Jun 05 16:43:23 nginx[2960]: nginx: [emerg] open() ""/var/log/nginx/log/host.access.log"" failed (2: No such file or directory)
Jun 05 16:43:23 nginx[2960]: nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
Jun 05 16:43:23 systemd[1]: nginx.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jun 05 16:43:23 systemd[1]: Failed to start nginx - high performance web server.
 
When I change the access_log in default.conf to /var/log/nginx/access.log then I was able to successfully start the service. 

Perhaps making that access_log value change in default.conf will fix this issue."	defect	closed	minor		nginx-package	1.9.x	fixed			Linux 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 19 11:24:13 EDT 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux	nginx version: nginx/1.12.0