linux man page for nginx

nginx(1)																  nginx(1)

NAME

       nginx - small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server

SYNOPSIS

       nginx [options] <configuration file>

DESCRIPTION

       Nginx  ("engine	X")  is  a  high-performance  web and reverse proxy server created by Igor Sysoev. It can be used both as a standalone web
       server and as a proxy to reduce the load on back-end HTTP or mail servers.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below:

       -?,-h  Show this help.

       -v     Show version and exit.

       -V     Show version and configure options then exit.

       -s signal
	      Send signal to a master process: stop, quit, reopen, reload.

       -p prefix
	      Set prefix path.

       -g directives
	      Set global directives out of configuration file.

       -c <configuration file>
	      Specifies a particular configuration file for nginx to load.

       -t     Tests nginx configuration and exit.

       SEE ALSO
	      Website: <http://nginx.org/>

       AUTHORS
	      nginx was written by Igor Sysoev <igor@sysoev.ru>.

       This manual page was written by Jose Parrella <joseparrella@cantv.net> and
	      Kartik Mistry <kartik@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

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