Recently, I set up a new developing environment in a VirtualBox VM. The source code shares between the host and VM by shared folder. It causes a problem that the config file can not be found when Nginx is starting up.

I searched on Google and found some related posts.

“If Nginx does not start after rebooting the server” points out the correct direction of the solution, however, the changes of method 1 mentioned in the article is not working for VirtualBox, and personally, I don’t like the method 2.

While, “How to mount shared folder from VirtualBox at boot time in Debian” describes the mount must happen after vboxadd-service.service started.

Combine this two posts, the solution would be obvious.

Solution

Change the line /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/nginx.service in the configuration file of Nginx in VM

After=network.target

Adding vboxadd-service.service

After=network.target vboxadd-service.service

Reboot the VM.

Check Nginx running status with the following command

sudo service nginx status

Solved!

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