Installation startup restart and shutdown of Nginx on MAC

1. Install

Execute the following command

brew search nginx
brew install nginx

After the installation, you can see some configuration paths in the terminal output information:

/usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf  (profile path) 
/usr/local/var/www  (server default path) 
/usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.8.0  (installation path) 

If it is a system with macOS 1.12 or above, "warning" may appear during the installation process. It is said that this version of the operating system is not supported, so you can ignore it for the time being.

2. Start

Enter in the terminal

ps -ef|grep nginx

If the result of the execution is

 501 15800   1  0 12:17 In the morning  ??     0:00.00 nginx: master process /usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.8.0/bin/nginx -c /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf 
 501 15801 15800  0 12:17 In the morning  ??     0:00.00 nginx: worker process 
 501 15848 15716  0 12:21 In the morning  ttys000  0:00.00 grep nginx

Indicates successful startup, if not the result shown above, executed in the terminal

/usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.8.0/bin/nginx -c /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

The command starts nginx.

At this point, if you successfully access localhost:8080, you have successfully installed and started.

3. Stop

Enter in the terminal ps -ef|grep nginx  Get the process number of nginx, and notice that" nginx:master "Process number, the following process is 15800

 501 15800   1  0 12:17 In the morning  ??     0:00.00 nginx: master process /usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.8.0/bin/nginx -c /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf 
 501 15801 15800  0 12:17 In the morning  ??     0:00.00 nginx: worker process 
 501 15848 15716  0 12:21 In the morning  ttys000  0:00.00 grep nginx

Enter the following commands into the terminal to stop

kill -QUIT 15800 ( Stop calmly, that is, will not stop immediately )
Kill -TERM 15800  (stop immediately) 
Kill -INT 15800  (and above 1 Like, also immediately stop) 

4. Restart

If the configuration file is wrong, it will fail to start, so before starting nginx, you need to verify the correctness of the configuration file, as shown below

promote:bin yangqianhua$ /usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.8.0/bin/nginx -t -c /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
nginx: the configuration file /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

There are two ways to reboot

1) enter the following command at the terminal to restart

promote:~ yangqianhua$ cd /usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.8.0/bin/
promote:bin yangqianhua$ ./nginx -s reload
promote:bin yangqianhua$ 

2) restart according to the process number and execute the command kill -HUP Process of no.

conclusion