How to restart Nginx on Mac OS X?
I just installed Nginx on Mac OS X (thanks http://www.kevinworthington.com/nginx-mac-os-snow-leopard-2-minutes/), but how do I restart Nginx on Mac OS X?
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For a one-liner, you could just do:
The -s options stands for signal, and is the option you’ll use to send stop , quit , reopen and reload signals to nginx.
For more info on the options, just do nginx -h for a list of all of them and their functions.
for brew installation: sudo brew services restart nginx
If the pkill can’t be found, then install it using brew install proctools first.
If you are using brew:
To see all services:
Start nginx service:
Stop nginx Service:
sudo nginx -s quit && sudo nginx
Using MAMP and Nginx? Then you have an installed script:
Just another note, if you want to start nginx with launchctl, when your Mac boots up, you can do as follows:
In short, you need to put your plist file in /Library/LaunchDaemons , not in
/Library/LaunchAgents like the Homebrew instructions. Finally, use the -w option with launchctl . For further information, follow this guide.
How to restart nginx on OS X
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 . Wondering if there are better ways to restart nginx .
Found some methods on Google and SO but didn’t work:
The error message for nginx -s restart is
Sometimes also get this error msg:
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What is your nginx pid file location? This is specified in the configuration file, default paths specified compile-time in the config script. You can search for it as such:
find / -name nginx.pid 2>/dev/null (must issue while nginx is running)
Try running sudo nginx before starting nginx.
To reload config files:
To fully restart nginx :
Details
There is no restart signal for nginx. From the docs, here are the signals that the master process accepts:
Presumably you could send these signals to the process id manually, but the nginx command has the flag nginx -s that sends signals to the master process for you. Your options are:
No need to futz with the pid manually.
Edit: just realized much of this info was already in comments on the other answers. Leaving this here anyway to summarize the situation.
First kill the progress
It seems that nginx keeps track of its state, to if you stop it twice, it will complain. But the above worked for me.
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.
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.
check if this directory exists:
this error can occurs when nginx try to initialise pid file in localisation that doesn’t exist.
There is a bug here. Depending on whether nginx is running while you modify/restart apache and/or modify nginx configs it is possible for this file (which is essentially just a process ID pointer) to be destroyed.
When you attempt to send any signal to nginx like
nginx uses this file to reference the ID of the process to which it needs to send the signal. If the file isn’t there the link between the active running process of nginx & the cli app is effectively broken.
I actually ended up in a state where two nginx processes were running simultaneously so killed both.
Корректная настройка Nginx в Mac OS?
Здравствуйте, помогите пожалуйста разобраться!
Пытаюсь настроить Nginx в Mac OS.
В /usr/local/etc/nginx/servers/ создаю файл mysite_nginx.conf . В /private/etc/host добавил 127.0.0.1 mysite . Запускаю Nginx, захожу по url mysite:8888, а статика не отображается.
P.S. До этого использовал Nginx лишь в Ubuntu 16.04, где кастомные настройки для своего проекта создавались в папке /etc/nginx/sites-available/mysite_nginx.conf .
Nginx слушает 80 порт, но вы продожаете ходить в 8888, т.е. мимо nginx.
А вообще, nginx точно запустился, а то сообщения об ошибках вообще-то не совместимы с нормальной работой.
Алексей Тен, вы правы я обращаясь по порту 8888 в url я проходил мимо Nginx. Написал в url-ке mysite без порта и все открылось как надо. На счет ошибок не могу сам понять в чем проблема. Проверил файлы error.log и nginx.pid по указанным адресам и они существуют. Заходил в файл /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf и там были закоментированы следующие поля:
Я их разкомментировал, и перезагрузил nginx (Команда sudo nginx -s reload).
Запустил команду nginx -t но к сожалению выдает те же ошибки. Есть идеи как исправить ситуацию?
Тестировать тоже надо используя sudo
Алексей Тен, В чем существенная разница между sudo nginx -t и nginx -t ? Понятно sudo выполняет команду от имени администратора.
Без sudo не хватает прав на открытие файлов логов.
Настройка окружения для web-разработки на Mac OS X
Установку необходимого софта будем производить с использованием менеджера недостающих пакетов для macOS — Homebrew. Если он у вас еще не устанолен, сперва ставим Xcode через AppStore либо в терминале набираем команду:
согласившись с лицензионным соглашением.
Установка Homebrew
Открываем терминал (вместо стандартного я использую ITerm2) и запускаем установку командой:
После установки обновляемся, проверяем все ли в порядке:
В качестве сервера баз данных я решил использовать MariaDB.
Cтавим MariaDB:
Выпоним первоначальную настройку сервера:
и проверяем подключение:
Займемся web сервером nginx:
Настройка nginx и создание структуры директорий.
Для виртуальных хостов я использую следующую структуру (вы можете использовать другую, удобную вам но не забудьте исправить пути в конфигах!):
Конфигурационные файлы вирутальных хостов.
Я использую следующую схему:
После установки nginx, в директории /usr/local/etc/nginx/ имеется стандартный конфигурационный файл nginx.conf. Приведем его к следуюущему виду:
Далее пишем конфигурацию виртуального хоста в директории /usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-available/
Создаем символьную ссылку:
Установка PHP
Если используете zsh то:
либо (в зависимости от того какой используется шел)
Версии должны быть одинаковыми!
Далее создадим файл index.php для проверки:
В адресной строке браузера набираем localhost и смотрим результат. Чтобы сервисы автоматически запускались после перезагрузки:
Вот вроде бы и все. Если возникнут вопросы, пишите в комментариях либо через форму обратной связи на странице контактов.
jimothyGator / README.md
- nginx.conf to /usr/local/etc/nginx/
- default.conf and default-ssl.conf to /usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-available
- homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist to /Library/LaunchDaemons/
Not documented yet:
- How to create self-signed SSL certificates
- How to start and stop Nginx
| server < |
| listen 443; |
| server_name localhost; |
| ssl on; |
| ssl_certificate server.crt; |
| ssl_certificate_key server.key; |
| ssl_session_timeout 5m; |
| ssl_protocols SSLv2 SSLv3 TLSv1; |
| ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5; |
| ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on; |
| location / < |
| root html; |
| index index.html index.htm; |
| > |
| > |
| server < |
| listen 80; |
| server_name localhost; |
| #access_log logs/host.access.log main; |
| location / < |
| root html; |
| index index.html index.htm; |
| > |
| #error_page 404 /404.html; |
| # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html |
| # |
| error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html; |
| location = /50x.html < |
| root html; |
| > |
| > |
| xml version = » 1.0 » encoding = » UTF-8 » ?> |
| DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC «-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN» «http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd»> |
| plist version = » 1.0 » > |
| dict > |
| key > Label key > |
| string > homebrew.mxcl.nginx string > |
| key > RunAtLoad key > |
| true/> |
| key > KeepAlive key > |
| false/> |
| key > ProgramArguments key > |
| array > |
| string > /usr/local/opt/nginx/sbin/nginx string > |
| string > -g string > |
| string > daemon off; string > |
| array > |
| key > WorkingDirectory key > |
| string > /usr/local string > |
| dict > |
| plist > |
| #user nobody; |
| worker_processes 1 ; |
| error_log /Library/Logs/nginx/error.log; |
| events < |
| worker_connections 1024 ; |
| > |
| http < |
| include mime.types; |
| default_type application/octet-stream; |
| log_format main ‘ $remote_addr — $remote_user [ $time_local ] » $request » ‘ |
| ‘ $status $body_bytes_sent » $http_referer » ‘ |
| ‘» $http_user_agent » » $http_x_forwarded_for «‘ ; |
| access_log /Library/Logs/nginx/access.log main ; |
| sendfile on ; |
| keepalive_timeout 65 ; |
| index index.html index.php; |
| upstream www-upstream-pool < |
| server unix:/tmp/php-fpm.sock; |
| > |
| include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf; |
| include /usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*.conf; |
| > |
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spamguy commented Sep 25, 2015
Good idea putting the logs in /Library/Logs. I had to create the directory /Library/Logs/nginx first—nginx couldn’t handle that itself.
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Vetal4eg commented Oct 1, 2015
@spamguy What good in logs at /Library/Logs? Only unix way, only hardcore!
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anthonybrown commented Oct 13, 2015
I can’t seem to get nginx to load anything on port :8080
brew install nginx —with-passenger
followed brew’s instructions but couldn’t get localhost to work.
I have it running on my iMac but not on my MBP, is there some difference in configuration?
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wellington1993 commented Mar 30, 2016
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andresnator commented May 28, 2016
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iplus26 commented Jun 7, 2016
Forgot to include /usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*.conf;
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raulvillca commented Aug 14, 2016
include /etc/nginx/conf.d . i must make it, cause i didn’t find it
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cr2121 commented Sep 20, 2016
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craigiswayne commented Dec 19, 2016
Found this «create your own signed certificate for mac» tutorial
https://certsimple.com/blog/localhost-ssl-fix
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j0t3x commented Dec 26, 2016
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trainiac commented Jan 22, 2017
/usr/local/opt/nginx/sbin/nginx was /usr/local/opt/nginx/bin/nginx for me. Thanks!
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nyxee commented Aug 25, 2017
people always fail to inform others to edit /private/etc/hosts and add entries for the servers.
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ihorvorotnov commented Feb 22, 2018
@nyxee or just let dnsmasq handle it
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efthemiosprime commented Mar 25, 2018
where can i find the /private/etc/hosts?
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agm1984 commented Oct 11, 2018 •
The hosts files is found at /etc/hosts in both Mac OS and Unix systems.
Typically, you can type
and it will open the file, if you have nano installed. There is a good chance you have nano installed. Try it, if not, use your favourite text editor. Make sure you open the file with elevated privileges so you can save it. It is a system file.
As mentioned above, you can also use dnsmasq which auto forwards *.dev domains in your browser to localhost.