Find nginx version

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I have installed nginx on Debian 7 with the following steps  sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install nginx sudo service nginx start   I have confirmed that this starts nginx by accessing the hostip from the browser  How do I find out the version of nginx   nginx -v fails with the  command not found error  I verified that nginx exists in the usr sbin directory and that directory is added to the  PATH variable

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If you don t know where it is  locate nginx first   ps -ef   grep nginx   Then you will see something like this   root      4801     1  0 May23          00 00 00 nginx  master process  opt nginx sbin nginx -c  opt nginx conf nginx conf root     12427 11747  0 03 53 pts 1    00 00 00 grep --color auto nginx nginx    24012  4801  0 02 30          00 00 00 nginx  worker process                               nginx    24013  4801  0 02 30          00 00 00 nginx  worker process   So now you already know where nginx is  You can use the -v or -V  Something like    opt nginx sbin nginx -v

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In my case  I try to add sudo  sudo nginx -v

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Make sure that you have permissions to run the following commands   If you check the man page of nginx from a terminal  man nginx    you can find this   -V             Print the nginx version  compiler version  and configure script parameters   -v             Print the nginx version    Then type in terminal  nginx -v nginx version  nginx 1 14 0  nginx -V nginx version  nginx 1 14 0 built with OpenSSL 1 1 0g  2 Nov 2017 TLS SNI support enabled   If nginx is not installed in your system man nginx command can not find man page  so make sure you have installed nginx   You can also find the version using this command   Use one of the command to find the path of nginx  ps aux   grep nginx ps -ef   grep nginx  root       883  0 0  0 3  44524  3388          Ss   Dec07   0 00 nginx  master process  usr sbin nginx -g daemon on  master process on   Then run from terminal    usr sbin nginx -v  nginx version  nginx 1 14 0

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My guess is it s not in your path  in bash  try  echo  PATH and sudo which nginx And see if the folder containing nginx is also in your  PATH variable  If not  either add the folder to your path environment variable  or create an alias  and put it in your  bashrc  ooor your could create a link i guess  or sudo nginx -v if you just want that

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Try running command  whereis nginx   It will give you the correct path of the nginx installation  in my case nginx is installed in   usr local sbin   so I need to check if this path exists in output of command  echo  PATH   If you don t find the path in the output of this command  then you can add this   Suppose the output of my  echo  PATH  command is this        echo  PATH  usr local bin  sbin  bin  usr sbin  usr bin  root bin  usr local nginx sbin   Then I can append the path   usr local sbin  in  PATH by following command      echo  export PATH   usr local sbin  usr local bin  sbin  bin  usr sbin  usr bin  root bin  usr local nginx sbin    gt  gt   HOME  bashrc   Please check your nginx installation path may differ from mine  but the steps for adding them are same

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It seems that your nginx hasn t been installed correctly  Pay attention to the output of the installation commands   sudo apt-get install nginx   To check the nginx version  you can use this command     nginx -v nginx version  nginx 0 8 54    nginx -V nginx version  nginx 0 8 54 TLS SNI support enabled configure arguments  --conf-path  etc nginx nginx conf --error-log-path  var log nginx error log --http-client-body-temp-path  var lib nginx body --http-fastcgi-temp-path  var lib nginx fastcgi --http-log-path  var log nginx access log --http-proxy-temp-path  var lib nginx proxy --http-scgi-temp-path  var lib nginx scgi --http-uwsgi-temp-path  var lib nginx uwsgi --lock-path  var lock nginx lock --pid-path  var run nginx pid --with-debug --with-http addition module --with-http dav module --with-http geoip module --with-http gzip static module --with-http image filter module --with-http realip module --with-http stub status module --with-http ssl module --with-http sub module --with-http xslt module --with-ipv6 --with-sha1  usr include openssl --with-md5  usr include openssl --with-mail --with-mail ssl module --add-module  build buildd nginx-0 8 54 debian modules nginx-upstream-fair   For more information  http   nginxlibrary com check-nginx-version   You can use -v parameter to display the Nginx version only  or use the -V parameter to display the version  along with the compiler version and configuration parameters

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