I have a server on DigitalOcean setup by Forge to host a Laravel power project. Things are good then the site goes down. Hmm, let’s check the logs. Logs are located at /var/log/nginx for access and error but… I can’t cd into nginx. đ Big. ol. Frown. Face.
The platform re-emerged and I vowed to return to the issue again. I did, after the thing went down again. Still no cd’ing into nginx. Not even a sudo cd which, after reading an article, is a nonsensical command.
So here’s the solution.
sudo su allows you to run all commands as root. Something I didn’t know how to do with Forge as you get a sudo password but not a root user. Now that we are root we can cd into nginx. All is good.
IMPORTANT!!! Don’t run a command as root unless you have to. sudo su back to your user account (ex: sudo su forge) before going back to hacking your way through ubuntu jungle.