Locate the nginx conf file my nginx is actually using

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Working on a client s server where there are two different versions of nginx installed  I think one of them was installed with the brew package manager  its an osx box  and the other seems to have been compiled and installed with the nginx packaged Makefile  I searched for all of the nginx conf files on the server  but none of these files define the parameters that nginx is actually using when I start it on the server  Where is the nginx conf file that I m unaware of

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Running nginx -t through your commandline will issue out a test and append the output with the filepath to the configuration file  with either an error or success message

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All other answers are useful but they may not help you in case nginx is not on PATH so you re getting command not found when trying to run nginx   I have nginx 1 2 1 on Debian 7 Wheezy  the nginx executable is not on PATH  so I needed to locate it first  It was already running  so using ps aux   grep nginx I have found out that it s located on  usr sbin nginx  therefore I needed to run  usr sbin nginx -t   If you want to use a non-default configuration file  i e  not  etc nginx nginx conf   run it with the -c parameter   usr sbin nginx -c  lt path-to-configuration gt  -t   You may also need to run it as root  otherwise nginx may not have permissions to open for example logs  so the command would fail

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Both nginx -t and nginx -V would print out the default nginx config file path     nginx -t nginx  the configuration file  etc nginx nginx conf syntax is ok nginx  configuration file  etc nginx nginx conf test is successful    nginx -V nginx version  nginx 1 11 1 built by gcc 4 9 2  Debian 4 9 2-10  built with OpenSSL 1 0 1k 8 Jan 2015 TLS SNI support enabled configure arguments  --prefix  etc nginx --sbin-path  usr sbin nginx --modules-path  usr lib nginx modules --conf-path  etc nginx nginx conf       If you want  you can get the config file by     nginx -V 2 gt  amp 1   grep -o   - -conf-path     conf      cut -d     -f2  etc nginx nginx conf   Even if you have loaded some other config file  they would still print out the default value     ps aux would show you the current loaded nginx config file     ps aux USER       PID  CPU  MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND root        11  0 0  0 2  31720  2212          Ss   Jul23   0 00 nginx  master process nginx -c  app nginx conf   So that you could actually get the config file by for example     ps aux   grep   c onf    awk   print   NF     app nginx conf

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In addition to  Daniel Li s answer  the nginx installation with Valet would use the Velet configuration as well  this is found in   usr local etc nginx valet valet conf   The nginx conf file would have imported this Valet conf file  The settings you need may be in the Valet file

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which nginx   will give you the path of the nginx being used    EDIT  2017-Jan-18   Thanks to Will Palmer s comment on this answer  I have added the following     If you ve installed nginx via a package manager such as HomeBrew     which nginx   may not give you the EXACT path to the nginx being used  You can however find it using  realpath   which nginx      and as mentioned by  Daniel Li  you can get configuration of nginx via his method  alternatively you can use this   nginx -V

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ps -o args -C nginx COMMAND build sbin nginx -c    test conf   If nginx was run without the -c option  then you can use the -V option to find out the configure arguments that were set to non-standard values  Among them the most interesting for you are   --prefix PATH                      set installation prefix --sbin-path PATH                   set nginx binary pathname --conf-path PATH                   set nginx conf pathname

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