Its solved..... apparently installing nginx from its source code it gets
installed in /usr/local/nginx instead of /etc/nginx. Thanks anyways.

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Francis Daly <francis@daoine.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 05:50:19PM +0530, Swarna Koushik Debroy wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> > I've compiled and installed nginx with gridfs module as given by the
> > instuctions and it got installed successfully. But then when I configure
> > the nginx.conf with gridfs directive and restart the nginx server it
> fails
> > giving the error as 'nginx: [emerg] unknown directive "gridfs" in
> > /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:76' . Anyone who can help me fix this issue?
>
> If "nginx -t" gives that error message, then the nginx that you called
> does not have the gridfs modules included.
>
> What command or commands do you run when you "restart the nginx server"?
>
> f
> --
> Francis Daly francis@daoine.org
>
> _______________________________________________
> nginx mailing list
> nginx@nginx.org
> http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
>
_______________________________________________
nginx mailing list
nginx@nginx.org
http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx