NGINX systemd service file

Should work on Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch Linux, Ubuntu. Tested on Fedora 16 and 17, Ubuntu 18.04 .

The location of the PIDFile and the NGINX binary may be different depending on how NGINX was compiled.

Save this file as /lib/systemd/system/nginx.service

[Unit]
Description=The NGINX HTTP and reverse proxy server
After=syslog.target network-online.target remote-fs.target nss-lookup.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/run/nginx.pid
ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nginx
ExecReload=/usr/sbin/nginx -s reload
ExecStop=/bin/kill -s QUIT $MAINPID
PrivateTmp=true

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target