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Error while loading shared libraries: 'libpcre.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'

I just installed Passenger 3.0.11 and nginx and got this error:

Starting nginx: /opt/nginx/sbin/nginx: error while loading shared libraries: libpcre.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution

  • The message means what it says. The nginx executable was compiled to expect the PCRE (Perl-compatible Regular Expression) shared library to be available somewhere on LD_LIBRARY_PATH or specified in /etc/ld.so.conf or whatever equivalent library-locating mechanisms apply to your operating system, and it cannot find the library.

    You will need to install PCRE - or configure your environment so that nginx will look for the PCRE library where it is installed.