'brew install nginx fails to link
I am attempting to install nginx using the brew package manager, but it fails to link. How can I fix this?
roc-web5537:Downloads cmuench$ brew install nginx
Warning: Your Xcode (4.3.3) is outdated
Please install Xcode 4.5.
==> Installing nginx dependency: pcre
==> Downloading ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.31.tar.bz2
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/pcre-8.31.tar.bz2
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/pcre/8.31 --enable-utf8 --enable-unicode-properties --enable-pcregrep-libz --enable-pcregrep-libbz2
==> make test
==> make install
Warning: Could not link pcre. Unlinking...
Error: The `brew link` step did not complete successfully
The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local
You can try again using `brew link pcre'
==> Summary
/usr/local/Cellar/pcre/8.31: 130 files, 3.2M, built in 18 seconds
==> Installing nginx
==> Downloading http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.2.4.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/nginx-1.2.4.tar.gz
==> Patching
patching file conf/nginx.conf
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.2.4 --with-http_ssl_module --with-pcre --with-ipv6 --with-cc-opt=-I/usr/local/include --with-ld-opt=-L/usr/local/lib --conf-path=/usr/loca
==> make
==> make install
==> Caveats
In the interest of allowing you to run `nginx` without `sudo`, the default
port is set to localhost:8080.
If you want to host pages on your local machine to the public, you should
change that to localhost:80, and run `sudo nginx`. You'll need to turn off
any other web servers running port 80, of course.
You can start nginx automatically on login running as your user with:
mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents
cp /usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.2.4/homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist
Though note that if running as your user, the launch agent will fail if you
try to use a port below 1024 (such as http's default of 80.)
Warning: Could not link nginx. Unlinking...
Error: The `brew link` step did not complete successfully
The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local
You can try again using `brew link nginx'
Warning: /usr/local/sbin is not in your PATH
You can amend this by altering your ~/.bashrc file
==> Summary
/usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.2.4: 9 files, 952K, built in 9 seconds
Solution 1:[1]
I had this issue a few days ago with installation of Yeoman. It seems that some of the folders in /usr/local might not be owned by you and that can cause issues. In my case I had a couple of folders in /usr/local/ like that.
Go to /usr/local
cd /usr/local
Check who owns the folders
ls -l
Do the following for folders not owned by you (replacing sub-foldername with sub folders name obviously):
sudo chown $(whoami) /usr/local/<sub-foldername>
and then call
brew link pcre
It should link successfully.
Hope this helps.
Solution 2:[2]
This can sometimes happen if there area already files (or symlinks) with the same name. To force a link, you can use brew link -f pcre
. If you want to see whether there are any files preventing the link, you can use brew link --dry-run pcre
.
If there are no files listed by brew link --dry-run pcre
, then it is likely that jwwishart's answer is the correct one.
Solution 3:[3]
I had to remove manually and reinstall pcre and openssl then nginx will work:
brew remove pcre
brew remove openssl
brew install pcre
brew install openssl
nginx
Solution 4:[4]
Was getting
erma4inapower@MacBook-Pro-Dmitrij ? ~ ? brew services start php Error: Permission denied @ rb_sysopen - /Users/erma4inapower/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.php.plist
Ended up:
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /Users/erma4inapower/Library/LaunchAgents/
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Solution | Source |
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Solution 1 | jwwishart |
Solution 2 | daviewales |
Solution 3 | alacy |
Solution 4 | erma4ina |