I installed nginx (1.6) in ubuntu server (14.04).

After that, I installed gitlab. I didn't realize it came with its own nginx. I uninstalled gitlab later.

After installing gitlab, my first nginx began to never start at boot as a service. This means:

• If I hit sudo netstat -anp I don't see the corresponding entry in 0.0.0.0:80.
• If I hit sudo nginx -s reload and then sudo netstat -anp I see the corresponding entry I mentioned.

I thought I could fixing it by doing:

sudo update-rc.d nginx remove
sudo update-rc.d nginx defaults

After removing gitlab, but it did not help me (i.e. after reboot, nginx does not automatically start).

I revised the /etc/init.d/nginx just to see that $DAEMON is still /usr/sbin/nginx.

Question: What should I check to see the problem here (or: what could the problem be)? sudo nginx -s reload works with no problems at all.