Man Linux: Main Page and Category List

NAME

       nginx - small, but very powerful and efficient web server

SYNOPSIS

       nginx [options] <configuration file>

DESCRIPTION

       nginx  is  a server that can be used as standalone HTTP server and as a
       reverse proxy server before some Apache or another big server to reduce
       load to backend servers by many concurrent HTTP-sessions.

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.net/>

       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)