How to stop nginx on Mac OS X

Solution 1:

# nginx -h
...
-s signal     : send signal to a master process: stop, quit, reopen, reload
...

Solution 2:

This command stops also stops nginx.

sudo nginx -s stop 

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Solution 3:

The correct way to do this for Nginx installed via MacPorts:

• Start: sudo port load nginx
• Stop: sudo port unload nginx

OS X uses launchd so the process of starting/stopping daemons is slightly different.

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Solution 4:

Look at the PID of master process and do

kill -QUIT <master_pid>

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Solution 5:

You may try the following:

ps -lef|grep -i nginx:|awk '{ print $2}'|xargs kill -9