How to verify if nginx is running or not?

After running an ASP.NET vNext project on my local machine I was trying to figure out how I can run it on nginx as it looks to be a recommended choice

Following jsinh's blog, I installed it using:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nginx -y

I was trying to understand whether it is working or not by using:

ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | awk '{ print $2}'

After running

sudo service nginx start
sudo service nginx stop

However, the output is always the same:

How to verify if nginx is running or not?

Solution 1:

Looking at the requirement you have, the below command shall help:

service nginx status

Solution 2:

You could use lsof to see what application is listening on port 80:

sudo lsof -i TCP:80

Solution 3:

This is probably system-dependent, but this is the simplest way I've found.

if [ -e /var/run/nginx.pid ]; then echo "nginx is running"; fi

That's the best solution for scripting.

Solution 4:

If you are on mac machine and had installed nginx using

brew install nginx

then

brew services list

is the command for you. This will return a list of services installed via brew and their corresponding status.