The nginx command

HTTP and reverse proxy server, mail proxy server 2 examples from the lessons of the IVski Linux Playground — try them in the terminal next to them.

Options in the examples

-t

Do not run, just test the configuration file. nginx checks the configuration file syntax and then tries to open files referenced in the…

Examples

sudo nginx -t

check every file for mistakes

sudo nginx -t && sudo systemctl reload nginx

after a change to nginx's configuration

Lessons that use nginx

• Configuration & Server Blocks
• Mission: One Missing Character
• Mission: 502 Bad Gateway

Related commands

• systemctl