RedHatNginxInitScript

= Red Hat Nginx Init Script = Should work on RHEL, Fedora, CentOS. Tested on CentOS 5.

Save this file as [ /etc/init.d/nginx]


 * 1) !/bin/sh
 * 2) nginx - this script starts and stops the nginx daemon
 * 3) chkconfig:   - 85 15
 * 4) description:  Nginx is an HTTP(S) server, HTTP(S) reverse \
 * 5)               proxy and IMAP/POP3 proxy server
 * 6) processname: nginx
 * 7) config:      /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
 * 8) config:      /etc/sysconfig/nginx
 * 9) pidfile:     /var/run/nginx.pid
 * 1) config:      /etc/sysconfig/nginx
 * 2) pidfile:     /var/run/nginx.pid

. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
 * 1) Source function library.

. /etc/sysconfig/network
 * 1) Source networking configuration.

[ "$NETWORKING" = "no" ] && exit 0
 * 1) Check that networking is up.

nginx="/usr/sbin/nginx" prog=$(basename $nginx)

NGINX_CONF_FILE="/etc/nginx/nginx.conf"

[ -f /etc/sysconfig/nginx ] &&. /etc/sysconfig/nginx

lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/nginx

make_dirs { # make required directories user=`$nginx -V 2>&1 | grep "configure arguments:" | sed 's/[^*]*--user=\([^ ]*\).*/\1/g' -` if [ -z "`grep $user /etc/passwd`" ]; then useradd -M -s /bin/nologin $user fi  options=`$nginx -V 2>&1 | grep 'configure arguments:'` for opt in $options; do      if [ `echo $opt | grep '.*-temp-path'` ]; then value=`echo $opt | cut -d "=" -f 2` if [ ! -d "$value" ]; then # echo "creating" $value mkdir -p $value && chown -R $user $value fi      fi   done }

start { [ -x $nginx ] || exit 5 [ -f $NGINX_CONF_FILE ] || exit 6 make_dirs echo -n $"Starting $prog: " daemon $nginx -c $NGINX_CONF_FILE retval=$? echo [ $retval -eq 0 ] && touch $lockfile return $retval }

stop { echo -n $"Stopping $prog: " killproc $prog -QUIT retval=$? echo [ $retval -eq 0 ] && rm -f $lockfile return $retval }

restart { configtest || return $? stop sleep 1 start }

reload { configtest || return $? echo -n $"Reloading $prog: " killproc $nginx -HUP RETVAL=$? echo }

force_reload { restart }

configtest { $nginx -t -c $NGINX_CONF_FILE }

rh_status { status $prog }

rh_status_q { rh_status >/dev/null 2>&1 }

case "$1" in   start)        rh_status_q && exit 0        $1        ;;    stop) rh_status_q || exit 0 $1       ;;    restart|configtest)        $1        ;;    reload) rh_status_q || exit 7 $1       ;;    force-reload)        force_reload        ;;    status) rh_status ;;   condrestart|try-restart)        rh_status_q || exit 0            ;;    *) echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart|try-restart|reload|force-reload|configtest}" exit 2 esac