Accidentally overwrote /etc/nginx/sites-enabled now certbot causing nginx issues

[JakeIQ]

I accidentally used ‘sudo mv admin.oldDomain.com newDomain.com’ instead of ‘sudo mv admin.oldDomain.com admin.newDomain.com’ which overwrote my sites-enabled config file.

I then ran ‘sudo cp newDomain.com admin.newDomain.com’ and changed all the references from newDomain.com to admin.newDomain.com however now I’m getting the error:

nginx: [emerg] duplicate listen options for [::]:443 in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/admin.newDomain.com:15

How do I fix this?

[JuergenAuer]

Hi @JakeIQ

@JakeIQ

nginx: [emerg] duplicate listen options for [::]:443 in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/admin.newDomain.com:15

you can't have duplicated listen directives.

So remove one of these (perhaps the second).

[mnordhoff]

@JakeIQ

nginx: [emerg] duplicate listen options for [::]:443 in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/admin.newDomain.com:15

Remove the duplicate option from all but one of the listen directives.

https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#listen

If the duplicate option is ipv6only=on, it's been on by default for years, so you can probably just remove it entirely.