Top 15 Nginx Commands
Nginx Tutorial
Start Nginx:
sudo systemctl start nginx
[This command starts the Nginx web server]Stop Nginx:
sudo systemctl stop nginx
[This command stops the Nginx web server]Restart Nginx:
sudo systemctl restart nginx
[This command restarts the Nginx web server]Kill Nginx Service:
sudo killall nginx
[This command when Nginx is not restart or not working]Reload Nginx configuration:
sudo systemctl reload nginx
[This command reloads the Nginx configuration without restarting the server]Check Nginx configuration syntax:
sudo nginx -t
[This command checks the syntax of the Nginx configuration files has any errors]Show status of Nginx service:
sudo systemctl status nginx
[This command displays the status of the Nginx service is running or not]Enable Nginx to start on system boot:
sudo systemctl enable nginx
[startup scripts]Disable Nginx from starting on system boot:
sudo systemctl disable nginx
[removes the startup scripts]View Nginx access logs:
sudo tail -f /var/log/nginx/access.log
[displays the Nginx acess log]View Nginx error logs:
sudo tail -f /var/log/nginx/error.log
[This command displays the Nginx error log ]Test Nginx configuration and exit:
sudo nginx -t
[check Nginx Configurations syntax errors and prints the result]Show Nginx version:
sudo nginx -v
[displays the version of Nginx installed on the system]Show Nginx compilation options:
sudo nginx -V
[displays the compilation options used when building Nginx]Check Nginx worker processes:
sudo systemctl status nginx
[This command shows the number of Nginx worker processes currently running]Test Nginx server response:
curl -I localhost
[This command sends a HEAD request to the local Nginx server and displays the server response headers.]Note: these commands run in Linux-based operating system, such as Ubuntu or CentOS, and require administrative privileges (sudo) to execute.
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