How to restart nginx on OS X

Question

I\'m using nginx on OS X 10.8. Freshly installed nginx but can\'t find a way to restart nginx except kill nginx_pid say kill 64116

Answer 1

As a future resource, you can consult http://wiki.nginx.org/CommandLine

Nginx probably runs as root, so you will need to run a variant of the following command to affect it.

sudo nginx -s stop | reload | quit | reopen

There is usually not much reason to restart Nginx like Apache would need. If you have modified a configuration file, you may just want to the reload option.