How to make a modification take affect without restarting nginx?
Solution 1:
Use nginx -s reload
Solution 2:
nginx supports the following signals :
TERM, INT - Quick shutdown
QUIT - Graceful shutdown
HUP - Configuration reload: Start the new worker processes with a new configuration, Gracefully shutdown the old worker processes
USR1 - Reopen the log files
USR2 - Upgrade Executable on the fly
WINCH - Gracefully shutdown the worker processes
HUP is what you are looking for, so sudo kill -HUP pid (nginx pid)
source : http://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html
Solution 3:
Usually nginx's init-script has reload
action, i.e:
- Linux
/etc/init.d/nginx reload
- FreeBSD
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/nginx reload
Solution 4:
service nginx reload
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P.S. Doesn't work on Windows.