nginx(1)

nginx1

Small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server

Usage

nginx [options] <configuration file>

Overview

Nginx ("engine X") is a high-performance web and reverse proxy server created by Igor Sysoev. It can be used both as a standalone web server and as a proxy to reduce the load on back-end HTTP or mail servers.

Options

A summary of options is included below:
-?,-h

Show this help.

-v

Show version and exit.

-V

Show version and configure options then exit.

-s signal

Send signal to a master process: stop, quit, reopen, reload.

-p prefix

Set prefix path.

-g directives

Set global directives out of configuration file.

-c <configuration file>

Specifies a particular configuration file for nginx to load.

-t

Tests nginx configuration and exit.

Website: <http://nginx.org/>

Releases

5 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 4.0–5.0
  2. 6.0
  3. 7–8

-? since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -V since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -g since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -h since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -p since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -s since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -t since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -v since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

Authors

This manual page was written by Jose Parrella <[email protected]> and

Kartik Mistry <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

From nginx-common 1.6.2-5+deb8u5 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.