Works On

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Debian 9 (Stretch)

Same on:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

Other versions:

Debian 10 (Buster) Debian 11 (Bullseye) Debian 12 (Bookworm) Debian 13 (Trixie) Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) CentOS Stream 9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (Ootpa) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (Plow)

Details

Size: 29 lines
MD5: 7142d860a477b0932a0b1e798964bd4b
SHA256: 0365b059cb85389802007e994e41c7bff435e97129c1b118b7bf8756fa2483ab

Copy & Paste

curl:

curl https://exampleconfig.com/api/v1/config/original/7142d860a477b0932a0b1e798964bd4b?hint=nginx.service

wget:

wget -O nginx.service https://exampleconfig.com/api/v1/config/original/7142d860a477b0932a0b1e798964bd4b?hint=nginx.service

For AI Agents

You are a DevOps agent. Fetch the default NGINX config for Debian 9 (Stretch) from https://exampleconfig.com/api/v1/config/original/7142d860a477b0932a0b1e798964bd4b?hint=nginx.service. Compare with my current /etc/systemd/nginx.service and summarize differences and safe changes.

Copy this prompt into Claude, ChatGPT, or other AI assistants.

/etc/systemd/nginx.service

# Stop dance for nginx
# =======================
#
# ExecStop sends SIGSTOP (graceful stop) to the nginx process.
# If, after 5s (--retry QUIT/5) nginx is still running, systemd takes control
# and sends SIGTERM (fast shutdown) to the main process.
# After another 5s (TimeoutStopSec=5), and if nginx is alive, systemd sends
# SIGKILL to all the remaining processes in the process group (KillMode=mixed).
#
# nginx signals reference doc:
# http://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html
#
[Unit]
Description=A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
Documentation=man:nginx(8)
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/run/nginx.pid
ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g 'daemon on; master_process on;'
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nginx -g 'daemon on; master_process on;'
ExecReload=/usr/sbin/nginx -g 'daemon on; master_process on;' -s reload
ExecStop=-/sbin/start-stop-daemon --quiet --stop --retry QUIT/5 --pidfile /run/nginx.pid
TimeoutStopSec=5
KillMode=mixed

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Install NGINX

Alpine Linux

sudo apk add nginx

Debian

sudo apt update && sudo apt install nginx

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

sudo yum install nginx

Ubuntu

sudo apt update && sudo apt install nginx

File Location

File Path

/etc/systemd/nginx.service

FAQ

When should I use this nginx.service?

Restore it. Compare it. Start clean.

How do I restore NGINX defaults?

Download, replace, restart.

Is nginx.service safe for production?

Yes. This is exactly what shipped. Safe starting point.

How does this differ from other OS versions?

Defaults change. This one is specific to Debian 9 (Stretch).

Can I use this for NGINX troubleshooting?

Absolutely. Diff this against yours to spot the problem.

NGINX /etc/systemd/nginx.service