Launchd not loading nginx on startup
This is what worked for me:
sudo cp /usr/local/opt/nginx/*.plist /Library/LaunchDaemonssudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plistThe trick to this is that Mac OSX won’t let anything other than “root” or “system” level services use a port number below 1024.
Read more here: http://derickbailey.com/2014/12/27/how-to-start-nginx-on-port-80-at-mac-osx-boot-up-log-in/
I stumbled upon your question because I was having the same issue. Three things helped me make it work:
- change ownership of plist file to
root:wheel(sudo chown root:wheel /usr/local/opt/nginx/*.plist) - create the symlink in
/Library/LaunchAgentsinstead of~/Library/LaunchAgents, because you probably run nginx on port 80, which requires root privileges. - Remove the
<string>-g</string>and<string>daemon off;</string>lines from the plist (before loading it withsudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist)
I'm not sure why those two lines are invalid, but I found out by trying to execute the /usr/local/opt/nginx/bin/nginx with -g daemon off; added to it, it also failed.