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

One way to stop or reload is through the below command,

For stop:

sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -s stop 

Run reload only if the nginx is running:

sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -s reload

By doing like the above, you wont get nginx: [error] open() "/usr/local/var/run/nginx.pid" this issue