nginx: error while loading shared libraries: libpcre.so.1

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I encountered the following error in Nginx.

If you are getting the above error while startingNginx, you could fix it by following.

This happens due to the following three reasons.

There are multiple ways to troubleshoot and fix this issue.

Lets understand the error and fix it accordingly.

Nginx is looking for a filelibpcre.so.1which comes under thePCRE libraryand usually installed on UNIX.

Note: If you dont get find results then you got to install PCRE with the below command.

If you dont have root privilege, then you may ask the system administrator to install it.

Now, lets setLD_LIBRARY_PATHas we could seelibpcre.so.1is available under /usr/local/lib

Start Nginx, it should be right now.

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