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).
nginx(1)