macosnginx

why my nginx service can not be stopped on my mac?

I installed nginx on my mac lion by using homebrew. When i type command:

nginx -s stop

the service is launched again in a second. how can i stop it?

Solution

  • If you installed the LaunchAgent, I believe that will keep the service alive if it's not running.

    See launchd.plist man page

    You can try running launchctl stop org.nginx.nginx or remove the

    <key>KeeyAlive</key>
<true/>

    bit from the plist (~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.nginx.nginx.plist)

    Update

    Looks like the only way to stop the daemon is to unload the LaunchAgent:

    launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.nginx.nginx.plist