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I don't seem to be able to do that either.

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
linux, nginx

Research direction

Reproduce the failure with ./nginx -t and inspect /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf:44, using the reported nginx 1.12.2 environment as context. Determine why the echo directive is unavailable and document the configuration or module state needed for the command to pass.

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Description

Environmental Science : linux
nginx Edition : nginx/1.12.2

./nginx -t
nginx: [emerg] unknown directive "echo" in /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf:44
nginx: configuration file /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf test failed

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C
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