How to restart nginx on OS X

Question

I'm using nginx on OS X 10.8. Freshly installed nginx but can't find a way to restart nginx except kill nginx_pid say kill 64116. Wondering if there are better ways to restart nginx.

Found some methods on Google and SO but didn't work:

nginx -s restart  sudo fuser -k 80/tcp ; sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart 

The error message for nginx -s restart is

nginx: [error] open() "/usr/local/var/run/nginx.pid" failed (2: No such file or directory) 

Sometimes also get this error msg:

nginx: invalid option: "-s restart" 

Answer 1

Try running sudo nginx before starting nginx.