How to correctly restart nginx?

[Francisco Valladolid]

The old school command.

# kill -HUP `cat /var/run/nginx.pid`

Regards.

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Kevin Worthington
<kworthington at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you tried (as root):
> service nginx restart
> -or-
> service nginx stop && service nginx start
>
> --
> 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
>
>



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