# Nginx Error at testing stage

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [March 3, 2018, 7:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/nginx-error-at-testing-stage/82102 "2018-03-03T07:11:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 7:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/nginx-error-at-testing-stage/82102/1 "2018-03-03T07:11:07Z")

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[kirizagroup00001@localhost nginx]$ nginx -t  
nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: open() “/var/log/nginx/error.log” failed (13: Permission denied)  
2018/03/04 14:29:21 [warn] 2495#0: the “user” directive makes sense only if the master process runs with super-user privileges, ignored in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:5  
2018/03/04 14:29:21 [emerg] 2495#0: unknown directive “erver” in /etc/nginx/conf.d/discourse.conf:1  
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed

Am I getting this error because I haven’t yet obtained a domain name for my discourse or is it an internal error?

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