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Ryan
Asked: 2012-11-13 07:41:43 +0800 CST

Suspicious symbols on nginx config

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I have the following nginx config, e.g.

server {
        listen   80;
        server_name example.com
        allow 127.0.0.0/8;

When I restart, it warn me:

Restarting nginx: nginx: [warn] server name "127.0.0.0/8" has suspicious 
symbols in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/xxx

Any idea?

nginx

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I guess you are missing the ; at the end of the server_name directive so it interprets the allow line as part of the server name. 

    server {
        listen   80;
        server_name example.com;
        allow 127.0.0.0/8;
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  2. For me the cause of this error was having 'http://' in the server_name.

    i.e. I changed this:

    server {
    listen <Server name>:80;
    server_name <DNS name> http://localhost:28080;
    ...

    To this:

    server {
    listen <Server name>:80;
    server_name <DNS name> localhost:28080;
    ...
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  3. A simple directive consists of the name and parameters separated by spaces and ends with a semicolon (;).

    In your case server_name example.com semicolon (;) is missing.

    server {
        listen   80;
        server_name example.com;
        allow 127.0.0.0/8;
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  4. In my case error was in website url

    server_name  http://testapp.com;

    so I modified it this way

    server_name  testapp.com;

    and when I tried

    sudo nginx -t Outputnginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

    it worked for me

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