nginx on Windows rejects certificate paths with backslashes
Windows nginx refuses to load certificate files when the config uses backslash paths, and the user blames a bug.
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6 public reports · first reported 4 October 2026 · last reported 4 October 2026
What's going wrong
Administrators running nginx on Windows find that one certificate fails to load while others work, and the error mentions a failed file open.
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