OptionsOn nginx itself
-c
Use an alternative configuration file <file>
-e
Use an alternative error log file. Special value stderr indicates that the standard error output should be used <file>
-g
Set global configuration directives <directives>
-p
Set the prefix path. The default value is %%PREFIX%% <prefix>
-q
Suppress non-error messages during configuration testing
-T
Same as -t, but additionally dump configuration files to standard output
-t
Do not run, just test the configuration file. nginx checks the configuration file syntax and then tries to open files referenced in the configuration file
-V
Print the nginx version, compiler version, and configure script parameters
-v
Print the nginx version
-s
Send a signal to the master process. The argument signal can be one of: stop, quit, reopen, reload <signal>
