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Command-line parameters
nginx supports the following command-line parameters:
-?
|-h
— print help for command-line parameters.-c
— use an alternative configurationfile
file
instead of a default file.-g
— set global configuration directives, for example,directives
nginx -g "pid /var/run/nginx.pid; worker_processes `sysctl -n hw.ncpu`;"
-p
— set nginx path prefix, i.e. a directory that will keep server files (default value isprefix
/usr/local/nginx
).-q
— suppress non-error messages during configuration testing.-s
— send a signal to the master process. The argument signal can be one of:signal
stop
— shut down quicklyquit
— shut down gracefullyreload
— reload configuration, start the new worker process with a new configuration, gracefully shut down old worker processes.reopen
— reopen log files
-t
— test the configuration file: nginx checks the configuration for correct syntax, and then tries to open files referred in the configuration.-T
— same as-t
, but additionally dump configuration files to standard output (1.9.2).-v
— print nginx version.-V
— print nginx version, compiler version, and configure parameters.