Nginx Systemd Service File for CentOS 7.x

At my web hosting company, in the past months we’ve started using CentOS 7 for brand new dedicated servers, and we also started migrating old CentOS 6.x machines to the latest version of CentOS.

One of the big changes introduced in CentOS 7 is systemd, this changes everything we all knew about system services inside Linux as stated in my previous post CentOS 7 vs CentOS 6.

This Nginx Systemd Service file should work on Fedora, CentOS and  RHEL withut any problems.

Create the Nginx systemd service file:

nano -w /lib/systemd/system/nginx.service

Copy and paste this text inside:

[Unit]
Description=The NGINX HTTP and reverse proxy server
After=syslog.target network.target remote-fs.target nss-lookup.target

[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/run/nginx.pid
ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nginx
ExecReload=/bin/kill -s HUP $MAINPID
ExecStop=/bin/kill -s QUIT $MAINPID
PrivateTmp=true

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

This nginx systemd service file is useful when you compile Nginx manually without using any binary RPMs.

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