title: Unable to start nginx service via Chef
body: <p>I'm trying to start nginx using chef solo but keep getting the error below.</p>
  
  <h3>error</h3>
  
  <pre><code> * service[nginx] action start
  
      ================================================================================
      Error executing action `start` on resource 'service[nginx]'
      ================================================================================
  
      Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed
      ------------------------------------
      Expected process to exit with [0], but received '1'
      ---- Begin output of /sbin/service nginx start ----
      STDOUT: Starting nginx: [FAILED]
      STDERR: nginx: [emerg] open() "/home/deploy/apps/...-api/shared/log/nginx.access.log" failed (2: No such file or directory)
      ---- End output of /sbin/service nginx start ----
      Ran /sbin/service nginx start returned 1
  
      Resource Declaration:
      ---------------------
      # In /root/chef-solo/cookbooks-3/.../recipes/nginx.rb
  
       60: service 'nginx' do
       61:   action [:enable, :start]
       62: end
  
      Compiled Resource:
      ------------------
      # Declared in /root/chef-solo/cookbooks-3/.../recipes/nginx.rb:60:in `from_file'
  
      service("nginx") do
        action [:enable, :start]
        supports {:restart=&gt;nil, :reload=&gt;nil, :status=&gt;nil}
        retries 0
        retry_delay 2
        default_guard_interpreter :default
        service_name "nginx"
        enabled true
        pattern "nginx"
        declared_type :service
        cookbook_name :...
        recipe_name "nginx"
      end
  
  
  Running handlers:
  [2016-01-22T18:28:41+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
  Running handlers complete
  [2016-01-22T18:28:41+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
  Chef Client failed. 11 resources updated in 25 seconds
  [2016-01-22T18:28:41+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /var/chef/cache/chef-stacktrace.out
  [2016-01-22T18:28:41+00:00] FATAL: Please provide the contents of the stacktrace.out file if you file a bug report
  [2016-01-22T18:28:41+00:00] ERROR: service[nginx] (...::nginx line 60) had an error: Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed: Expected process to exit with [0], but received '1'
  ---- Begin output of /sbin/service nginx start ----
  STDOUT: Starting nginx: [FAILED]
  STDERR: nginx: [emerg] open() "/home/deploy/apps/...-api/shared/log/nginx.access.log" failed (2: No such file or directory)
  ---- End output of /sbin/service nginx start ----
  Ran /sbin/service nginx start returned 1
  [2016-01-22T18:28:41+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::ChildConvergeError: Chef run process exited unsuccessfully (exit code 1)
  ERROR: RuntimeError: chef-solo failed. See output above.
  </code></pre>
  
  <h3>nginx.rb</h3>
  
  <pre><code>include_recipe 'yum'
  
  yum_repository 'nginx' do
    baseurl 'http://nginx.org/packages/centos/6/$basearch/'
    gpgcheck false
    enabled true
    action :create
  end
  
  yum_package 'nginx' do
    options '--enablerepo=nginx'
    action :install
  end
  
  # remove default nginx config
  # default_path = '/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default'
  # execute "rm -f #{default_path}" do
  #   only_if { File.exist?(default_path) }
  # end
  
  directory '/etc/nginx/sites-available' do
    owner 'deploy'
    group 'deploy'
    mode '0755'
    recursive true
    action :create
  end
  
  directory '/home/deploy/apps/...-api/current/public' do
    owner 'deploy'
    group 'deploy'
    mode '0755'
    recursive true
    action :create
  end
  
  cookbook_file '/etc/nginx/sites-available/default' do
    source 'nginx'
    owner 'deploy'
    group 'deploy'
    mode '0755'
    action :create
  end
  
  directory '/etc/nginx/sites-enabled' do
    group 'deploy'
    mode '0755'
    owner 'deploy'
  end
  
  # set custom nginx config
  cookbook_file '/etc/nginx/nginx.conf' do
    source 'nginx-base'
    owner 'deploy'
    group 'wheel'
    mode '0755'
    action :create
  end
  
  service 'nginx' do
    action [:enable, :start]
  end
  </code></pre>