nginx/Windows uses the directory where it has been run as the prefix for relative paths in the configuration. In the example above, the prefix is C:\nginx-1.13.12\
. Paths in a configuration file must be specified in UNIX-style using forward slashes:
access_log logs/site.log;
root C:/web/html;
nginx/Windows runs as a standard console application (not a service), and it can be managed using the following commands:
nginx -s stop fast shutdown
nginx -s quit graceful shutdown
nginx -s reload changing configuration, starting new worker processes with a new configuration, graceful shutdown of old worker processes
nginx -s reopen re-opening log files