Nginx won't start successfully

[jmmk]

This is on Amazon Linux. I tried the binaries and compiling from source and I get the same error both times (with nginx-clojure-0.2.5):

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: nginx/clojure/MiniConstants
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: nginx.clojure.MiniConstants
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
2014/09/26 14:03:39 [error] 11564#0: can not initialize jvm memory util
2014/09/26 14:03:39 [error] 11564#0: jvm start times 1
2014/09/26 14:03:39 [alert] 11430#0: worker process 11564 exited with fatal code 2 and cannot be respawned

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Could you please show us your nginx.conf ?

[jmmk]

The jvm variables are set to the following:

    jvm_path "/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so";
    jvm_options "-Djava.class.path=/home/ec2-user/jars/nginx-clojure-0.2.6.jar";

Everything else was left to default. This is the compiled version. With the binary, I had jvm_options "-Djava.class.path=/home/ec2-user/nginx-clojure-0.2.5/nginx-1.6.0/jars/nginx-clojure-0.2.5.jar";

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What your OS user to run nginx workers? Maybe this user can not access /home/ec2-user/nginx-clojure-0.2.5/nginx-1.6.0/jars/nginx-clojure-0.2.5.jar.

In nginx.conf user can be set which OS user to run nginx workers.

#user  nobody;

If you run nginx with root, the default user is nobody to run nginx workers. Otherwise the default user to run nginx workers is the same with the user who runs nginx master.

[jmmk]

That sounds like it could be the case, as I've run into similar issues with nginx before. I won't be able to try it out until later, but I'll come back with the results.

[jmmk]

I set user ec2-user; in nginx.conf and it solved the problem. Thanks for the help.