I was having the issue where I was starting the nginx service but when I checked the service was not running.

The issue is probably that you have errors in your nginx configuration file. Fortunately Nginx has a tool to tell you what is wrong with your configuration file.

sudo nginx -t #this will show any errors, if so fix them

# Then start nginx
sudo nginx start

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