Yes, I am using the winsw wrapper to run nginx as a server. It's very
lightweight and easy to use.
http://projectkenai.com/projects/winsw
http://projectkenai.com/projects/winswBy the way, this project is MIT
licensed, so I think that it would be quite easy to add it to the nginx code
base.
http://misterdai.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/nginx-windows-service/ explains
fully how to use winsw with nginx.

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Igor Sysoev <igor@sysoev.ru> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 03:55:29PM +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 07:03:43AM -0400, Arthur Blake wrote:
> >
> > > My apologies: I see now that this behavior is clearly documented here:
> > > http://nginx.org/en/docs/windows.html it was confusing to me whether
> > > wiki.nginx.org or nginx.org is the official documentation page.\
> >
> > nginx can run as a service itself, but it should be run by another
>
> nginx can NOT run as a service itself, but it should be run by another
>
> > utility. Probably nginx should use "Global\" prefix, i.e.
> > "Global\ngx_reopen_XXX", because srvany/etc may change session.
> > Tomorrow I will make a test-build with this prefix to test it.
>
>
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