# Nginx not starting after attempting to add offline page

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/nginx-not-starting-after-attempting-to-add-offline-page/199076
**Category:** General
**Created:** [August 3, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/nginx-not-starting-after-attempting-to-add-offline-page/199076 "2021-08-03T20:59:23Z")
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### Author: ![EddieT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@EddieT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EddieT)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/nginx-not-starting-after-attempting-to-add-offline-page/199076/1 "2021-08-03T20:59:23Z")

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After I did what was in the image above, nginx refuses to start, I changed the SSL certificate path, so I don’t really know why it’s not starting, does anyone know how to fix this?

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### Author: ![EddieT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@EddieT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EddieT)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2021, 9:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/nginx-not-starting-after-attempting-to-add-offline-page/199076/2 "2021-08-03T21:01:46Z")

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This is the error that was displayed when I ran “systemctl status nginx.service”