running nginx-running and nginx concurrently

fsantiago at deviltracks.net fsantiago at deviltracks.net
Mon Sep 21 14:00:19 UTC 2015


Thanks Rainer and Ekaterina.

The reason for my request is I have a production Nginx server (my only 
server) and I wanted to play with Nginx+ without disturbing my running 
server.



On 2015-09-21 07:04, Ekaterina Kukushkina wrote:
> Hello Rainer,
> 
>> On 21 Sep 2015, at 13:13, Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Well, on FreeBSD, the nginx package contains just one binary: 
>> /usr/local/sbin/nginx and no libraries.
>> Technically, I’m pretty sure I could unpack that binary from the 
>> package and place it just about anywhere in the filesystem (and 
>> subsequently run it from there).
> 
> Technically, yes.
> It's possible to unpack deb, put binary, configs, etc to new
> hierarchy, create start-up script (or run it by hand).
> But I said about whole package not binary.
> Running two binary simultaneously - possible.
> Thank you for clarify.
> 
>> 
>> Of course, I never got the chance to try out nginx-plus - but I assume 
>> it’s not much different.
> 
> But you can ;)
> 
>> 
>> Though I have trouble understanding the reason behind such a request…
> 
> May be current installed version was compiled with modules which
> aren't available for nginx-plus(-extras).
> 
>> 
> 
> --
> Ekaterina Kukushkina
> Support Engineer | NGINX, Inc.
> 
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