Nginx – Unit nginx.service is masked

By mkyong | Updated: November 2, 2018

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Upgraded a Nginx Server to the latest 1.15.x, but hits the following error message :

$ sudo service nginx status
* nginx.service
   Loaded: masked (/dev/null; bad)
   Active: inactive (dead)

$ sudo service nginx restart
Failed to restart nginx.service: Unit nginx.service is masked.

Solution

To solve it, just unmask with this : sudo systemctl unmask nginx.service

$ sudo systemctl unmask nginx.service

References

1. How to Manage Systemd Services on a Linux System
2. systemd: Masking units