How to reinstall nginx if I deleted /etc/nginx folder (Ubuntu 14.04)?

I'm trying to reinstall nginx, but I have this

nginx -t nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: open() "/var/log/nginx/error.log" failed (2: No such file or directory) 2015/01/25 16:18:01 [emerg] 1400#0: open() "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf" failed (2: No such file or directory) nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed 

How to install and start nginx if I removed all the nginx folders?

3 Answers

Login as root or:

sudo su - 

Then uninstall nginx:

apt-get purge nginx nginx-common nginx-full 

And then install it:

apt-get install nginx 

The other way is to run sudo command with -H:

sudo -H apt-get purge nginx nginx-common nginx-full sudo -H apt-get install nginx 

apt-get --purge remove nginx-* apt-get install nginx 

Try:

sudo aptitude purge nginx && sudo aptitude install nginx 

This code will remove and reinstall Nginx