Resolved startup order of things

[tkalfaoglu]

Hi. When the server restarts, I noticed that the nginx did not start. Upon examining, I found that its configuration file contained all the IP's of the system, including 10.10.0.1, which I use for the OpenVPN (it's the IP of the server).. So, if the OpenVPN server is not yet running, nginx doesn't start. Is there a way to order these startups, so that the above IP is defined before nginx tries to bind to it?

The system is a modern AlmaLinux 8.5.

Thanks!

 

[Monty]

Looks like you have a non-standard setup.
Your question is not really related to Plesk but more to systemd. You can set dependencies in systemd.
You may want to create a systemd drop-in for nginx and make nginx dependant on your openvpn service, example:
systemctl edit nginx.service
Then add (not tested!):

[Unit]
After=openvpn@server.service
Wants=openvpn@server.service

(Your OpenVPN service may have a different name, adjust it to your setup)

If this doesn't work, try this:

[Unit]
After=network-online.target remote-fs.target nss-lookup.target openvpn@server.service

Then do systemctl daemon-reload and try again

More info about systemd: systemd.unit

 

[tkalfaoglu]

many thanks!