How to correctly restart nginx?

[Kevin Worthington]

Have you tried (as root):
service nginx restart
-or-
service nginx stop && service nginx start

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Kevin Worthington

On Feb 17, 2009, at 7:32 PM, Max <maxbear at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I got some problem to restart nginx. I am running RHEL5 and using  
> 0.6.33 rpm version.I changed some rewrite rules in nginx.conf and  
> want to restart it.
>
> When I tried :
>
> /etc/init.d/nginx restart
>
> It will only stop nginx. Then I type:
>
> /etc/init.d/nginx status
>
> I still see there are some processes running.
>
> So, I kill all those processes and start nginx again. But my site is  
> not working anymore. It just redirect me to a 50x error page. I need  
> to reboot the server to get the sites running again.
>
> Could anyone tell me what's the correct way to restart nginx? Thanks  
> a lot.
>
> Max