After a failed restart of the nginx server, you can get this error typing journalctl -xe:
nginx: [emerg] open() “/usr/share/nginx/off” failed (13: Permission denied) [SOLVED]
This is caused by a misconfiguration of nginx.conf or a conf inside the /etc/nginx/conf.d/ directory where there’s something like:
error_log off;
This is the wrong way to disable logs. Nginx is actually trying to write a file called off inside the default folder.
The right way
To disable error_log simply do not declare it in your .conf file.
To stop logging accesses, you can disable access_log writing in your .conf file:
access_log off;
