问题
Working on a client's server where there are two different versions of nginx installed. I think one of them was installed with the brew package manager (its an osx box) and the other seems to have been compiled and installed with the nginx packaged Makefile. I searched for all of the nginx.conf files on the server, but none of these files define the parameters that nginx is actually using when I start it on the server. Where is the nginx.conf file that I'm unaware of?
回答1:
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).
回答2:
% ps -o args -C nginx
COMMAND
build/sbin/nginx -c ../test.conf
If nginx was run without the -c option, then you can use the -V option to find out the configure arguments that were set to non-standard values. Among them the most interesting for you are:
--prefix=PATH set installation prefix
--sbin-path=PATH set nginx binary pathname
--conf-path=PATH set nginx.conf pathname
回答3:
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
回答4:
which nginx
will give you the path of the nginx being used
EDIT (2017-Jan-18)
Thanks to Will Palmer's comment on this answer, I have added the following...
If you've installed nginx via a package manager such as HomeBrew...
which nginx
may not give you the EXACT path to the nginx being used. You can however find it using
realpath $(which nginx)
and as mentioned by @Daniel Li
you can get configuration of nginx via his method
alternatively you can use this:
nginx -V
回答5:
All other answers are useful but they may not help you in case nginx is not on PATH so you're getting command not found when trying to run nginx:
I have nginx 1.2.1 on Debian 7 Wheezy, the nginx executable is not on PATH, so I needed to locate it first. It was already running, so using ps aux | grep nginx I have found out that it's located on /usr/sbin/nginx, therefore I needed to run /usr/sbin/nginx -t.
If you want to use a non-default configuration file (i.e. not /etc/nginx/nginx.conf), run it with the -c parameter: /usr/sbin/nginx -c <path-to-configuration> -t.
You may also need to run it as root, otherwise nginx may not have permissions to open for example logs, so the command would fail.
回答6:
In addition to @Daniel Li's answer, the nginx installation with Valet would use the Velet configuration as well, this is found in "/usr/local/etc/nginx/valet/valet.conf". The nginx.conf file would have imported this Valet conf file. The settings you need may be in the Valet file.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19910042/locate-the-nginx-conf-file-my-nginx-is-actually-using