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I am running the following command to start my backend.

passenger start -e production

But I am getting this error: 

*** ERROR ***
Could not start Passenger Nginx core:
nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: open()
"/var/folders/jb/ln9fjc350gj85ntzrhthxc_85ffn5t/T/passenger-standalone.190uy5z/l
ogs/error.log" failed (2: No such file or directory)
2013/07/24 12:22:47 [emerg] 24155#0: "passenger_pre_start" directive The primary
group of the user specified by the 'default_user' option does not exist. Your
system's user account database is probably broken, please fix it. in
/var/folders/jb/ln9fjc350gj85ntzrhthxc_85ffn5t/T/passenger-standalone.190uy5z/co
nfig:93
Stopping web server... done

Please help.

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I have faced the same issue with passenger and fixed.

Fix: passenger uses 'nobody' as the default user and it takes the group which nobody is belongs to.

Change the default option with 'PassengerDefaultUser' directive in apache/nginx/httpd/virtual-host config.

PassengerDefaultUser your-user

Passenger will run the app with this 'you-user'

6.12.4. PassengerDefaultUser

Phusion Passenger enables user switching support by default. This configuration option allows one to specify the user that applications must run as, if user switching fails or is disabled. This option may only occur once, in the global server configuration. The default value is nobody.

6.12.5. PassengerDefaultGroup

Phusion Passenger enables user switching support by default. This configuration option allows one to specify the group that applications must run as, if user switching fails or is disabled. This option may only occur once, in the global server configuration. The default value is the primary group of the user specifified by PassengerDefaultUser.

ERROR which i got

Passenger could not be initialized because of this error: The option PassengerDefaultUser is set to 'nobody', but its primary group doesn't exist. In other words, your system's user account database is broken. Please fix it.

Jon
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