Nginx configuration recovery

[Daniël Mostertman]

Styopa Semenukha schreef op 17-3-2015 om 20:35:
> On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 01:24:52 PM vinay bhargav wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sorry for spamming but I'm in deep trouble.
>>
>> I've accidentally overwritten /etc/nginx/site-availabe/default with some
>> xyz file. I'm using Ubuntu 14.04. The server is still running. Is there any
>> way I could recover the config file.
>>
>> Note: Recovering the default file is very important for me.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Vinay.
> Hi,
>
> If you need the _stock_ file from the repository, this should do:
> cd /tmp && apt-get download nginx && dpkg -x nginx*.deb
>
> If you mean the file you had previously _modified_, I don't think it's possible.
If you are using ext2/3/4, you can use a tool called extundelete to 
recover the original file, given that you have not overwritten the file 
again since:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2113182
http://extundelete.sourceforge.net/