NAME¶

nginx - small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server

SYNOPSIS¶

nginx [options] <configuration file>

DESCRIPTION¶

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.

SEE ALSO¶

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

AUTHORS¶

nginx was written by Igor Sysoev <igor@sysoev.ru>.

This manual page was written by Jose Parrella <joseparrella@cantv.net> and

Kartik Mistry <kartik@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).