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Asked: 2013-12-22 06:59:38 +0800 CST

Why nginx -v not display version on ubuntu12.04?

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Nginx was installed on our ubuntu 12.04 server and we want to find the version. Here is what we did:

admin@ibm-testbox:/opt/nginx/sbin$ nginx -v
The program 'nginx' can be found in the following packages:
 * nginx-extras
 * nginx-full
 * nginx-light
 * nginx-naxsi
Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>
admin@ibm-testbox:/opt/nginx/sbin$ nginx -V
The program 'nginx' can be found in the following packages:
 * nginx-extras
 * nginx-full
 * nginx-light
 * nginx-naxsi
Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>

Then we were trying to find if nginx was running. Here is the output:

admin@ibm-testbox:/opt/nginx/sbin$ ps waux | grep nginx
root      7652  0.0  0.0  37560  1100 ?        Ss   Dec20   0:00 nginx: master process /opt/nginx/sbin/nginx
nobody    7653  0.0  0.0  38008  2316 ?        S    Dec20   0:00 nginx: worker process
admin  23376  0.0  0.0   9388   924 pts/0    S+   08:35   0:00 grep --color=auto nginx

The nginx was installed with PhusionPassenger module. Why nginx -v (-V) did not show version?

12.04

1 Answers

  1. Its seems like nginx is not properly installed. You can re install nginx by 

    apt-get purge nginx*
apt-get autoremove
apt-get update
apt-get install nginx-full

    Also you can try easyengine to install and manage website on ubuntu server.

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