I've been experimenting with nginx using Docker image nginx.

docker run -d --name nginx nginx
docker exec -ti nginx bash
# <edit /etc/nginx/conf.d files>

Now in order to load the edited /etc/nginx/conf.d files, I execute service nginx restart, which causes the container to stop, since the init process (nginx) terminated. Thus, I need to execute docker start nginx and docker exec -ti nginx bash to resume.

Is there any way to restart nginx to have it load the edited config files without also stopping the container?

CodePudding user response：

Call NGINX again with the -s command line parameter.

For example, /usr/bin/nginx -s stop will stop the NGINX server.

the other signals using with -s command are:

• stop
• quit
• reopen
• reload

The reload command keeps the Nginx server running as it reloads updated configuration files. If Nginx notices a syntax error in any of the configuration files, the reload is aborted and the server keeps running based on old config files. Reloading is safer than restarting Nginx.

example: /usr/bin/nginx -s reload

CodePudding user response：

nginx -t to check config is good

nginx -s reload to reload config without restart