Locate the nginx.conf file my nginx is actually using
Running nginx -t
through your commandline will issue out a test and append the output with the filepath to the configuration file (with either an error or success message).
Both nginx -t
and nginx -V
would print out the default nginx config file path.
$ nginx -t
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful
$ nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/1.11.1
built by gcc 4.9.2 (Debian 4.9.2-10)
built with OpenSSL 1.0.1k 8 Jan 2015
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --prefix=/etc/nginx --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx --modules-path=/usr/lib/nginx/modules --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf ...
If you want, you can get the config file by:
$ nginx -V 2>&1 | grep -o '\-\-conf-path=\(.*conf\)' | cut -d '=' -f2
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
Even if you have loaded some other config file, they would still print out the default value.
ps aux
would show you the current loaded nginx config file.
$ ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 11 0.0 0.2 31720 2212 ? Ss Jul23 0:00 nginx: master process nginx -c /app/nginx.conf
So that you could actually get the config file by for example:
$ ps aux | grep "[c]onf" | awk '{print $(NF)}'
/app/nginx.conf