Should work on RHEL, Fedora, CentOS. Tested on CentOS 5.
Save this file as /etc/init.d/nginx
#!/bin/sh # # nginx - this script starts and stops the nginx daemon # # chkconfig: - 85 15 # description: Nginx is an HTTP(S) server, HTTP(S) reverse \ # proxy and IMAP/POP3 proxy server # processname: nginx # config: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf # config: /etc/sysconfig/nginx # pidfile: /var/run/nginx.pid # Source function library. . / etc/ rc.d/ init.d/ functions # Source networking configuration. . / etc/ sysconfig/ network # Check that networking is up. [ "$NETWORKING " = "no" ] && exit 0 nginx ="/usr/sbin/nginx" prog =$( 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