I installed nginx on Ubuntu 18.04 from the nginx official repository, and
the provided systemd service file is much simpler than yours. It looks like
this:

```
[Unit]
Description=nginx - high performance web server
Documentation=http://nginx.org/en/docs/
After=network-online.target remote-fs.target nss-lookup.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/var/run/nginx.pid
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nginx -c /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
ExecReload=/bin/kill -s HUP $MAINPID
ExecStop=/bin/kill -s TERM $MAINPID

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
```

You should see if something more like that works for you.


On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 10:59 AM Zach Mitchell <zlmitche@syr.edu> wrote:

> I'm using a nginx 1.18.0 and 1.16.1 and when i perform a systemctl restart
> nginx, it does not actually reload the configs. nginx -s reload does not
> work either. Am i missing a configure flag that allows this to work
> properly?
>
>
>
> Here is my nginx -V
>
>
>
> built by gcc 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.12)
>
> built with OpenSSL 1.1.1g 21 Apr 2020
>
> TLS SNI support enabled
>
> configure arguments: --prefix=/usr/local/nginx
> --modules-path=/usr/lib/nginx/modules
> --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/client_temp
> --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/proxy_temp
> --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/fastcgi_temp
> --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/uwsgi_temp
> --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/scgi_temp --with-threads
> --with-file-aio --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_v2_module
> --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_gunzip_module
> --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_stub_status_module
> --with-http_realip_module --with-compat --with-pcre=../pcre-8.44
> --with-pcre-jit --with-zlib=../zlib-1.2.11 --with-openssl=../openssl-1.1.1g
> --with-openssl-opt=no-nextprotoneg --add-module=../ngx_cache_purge-2.3
>
>
>
> Here is my systemd nginx.service
>
>
>
> [Unit]
>
> Description=The NGINX HTTP and reverse proxy server
>
> After=syslog.target network.target remote-fs.target nss-lookup.target
>
>
>
> [Service]
>
> Type=forking
>
> PIDFile=/usr/local/nginx/logs/nginx.pid
>
> ExecStartPre=/usr/local/sbin/nginx -t -q -g 'daemon on; master_process on;'
>
> ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/nginx -g 'daemon on; master_process on;'
>
> ExecReload=/usr/local/sbin/nginx -g 'daemon on; master_process on;' -s
> reload
>
> ExecStop=/bin/kill -s QUIT $MAINPID
>
> PrivateTmp=true
>
>
>
> [Install]
>
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>
>
>
> I've got a workaround, which i spawn a 2nd process and wait then kill the
> old, but what is the deal?
>
>
>
> ExecReload=/bin/bash -c "/bin/kill -USR2 $MAINPID && /bin/sleep 5 &&
> /bin/kill -WINCH $MAINPID && /bin/sleep 5 && /bin/kill -QUIT $MAINPID"
>
>
>
> I appreciate the help! Thanks.
>
>
>
> *Zach*
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