Auto start Nginx on Linux reboot

After compiling Nginx from the source on older release of Ubuntu server, there are some steps to be performed in order to let Nginx service start automatically after a system reboot.

A startup script can be obtained here:
https://github.com/JasonGiedymin/nginx-init-ubuntu/blob/master/nginx

This script will be saved to /etc/init.d/nginx

However, there are additional changes on this script file in order to make it running properly.

For the existing version of Nginx v1.2.7, a couple of changes are required for pointing to the correct path of related files as follows:

# processname: nginx

# config:      /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf

# pidfile:     /usr/local/nginx/logs/nginx.pid

# Provides:    nginx





PATH=/usr/local/nginx/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

DAEMON=/usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx



NGINX_CONF_FILE="/usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf"

Once the changes are saved successfully, it'll be ready to add Nginx to the list of startup service on the server.

First, change the file permission as follows:

sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/nginx

Second, use the following command to update the default run level of the startup script:

sudo /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f nginx defaults 

After these, Nginx service will be started by itself during next system reboot.

You can also perform various tasks manually via the following command syntax:

sudo /etc/init.d/nginx (start|stop|reload|status)