How to start and restart nginx in Linux

Nginx (engine x) is a high-performance HTTP and reverse proxy web server that also provides IMAP/POP3/SMTP services. Nginx was developed by Igor Sysoev for the second most visited site in Russia, Rambler.ru (Russian: Рамблер). The first public version 0.1.0 was released on October 4, 2004.

Nginx is a lightweight web server/reverse proxy server and email (IMAP/POP3) proxy server released under the BSD-like protocol. Its characteristics are that it occupies less memory and has strong concurrency capabilities. In fact, nginx's concurrency capabilities are indeed better than those of the same type of web servers. Users of nginx websites in mainland China include: Baidu, JD.com, Sina, NetEase, Tencent, Taobao, etc.

So how does Linux start nginx?

1. Enter the sbin directory under the nginx installation directory

2. Execute the following command:

./nginx -c /usr/local/nginx/nginx/conf/nginx.conf

illustrate:

● /usr/local/nginx/nginx/conf/nginx.conf is the path to your own nginx.conf.

● The -c parameter specifies the path of the nginx configuration file to be loaded.

How to restart nginx in Linux?

Restart smoothly:

1. Enter the sbin directory under the nginx installation directory

2. Execute the following command:

./nginx -s reload