Find nginx version?

Question

I have installed nginx on Debian 7 with the following steps

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install nginx
sudo service nginx start

I have confirmed that this starts nginx by accessing the hostip from the browser. How do I find out the version of nginx?

nginx -v fails with the 'command not found error

I verified that nginx exists in the usr/sbin directory and that directory is added to the $PATH variable

Answer 1

It seems that your nginx hasn't been installed correctly. Pay attention to the output of the installation commands:

sudo apt-get install nginx

To check the nginx version, you can use this command:

$ nginx -v
nginx version: nginx/0.8.54

$ nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/0.8.54
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/body --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/fastcgi --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/proxy --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/scgi --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/uwsgi --lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --with-debug --with-http_addition_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_geoip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_image_filter_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_xslt_module --with-ipv6 --with-sha1=/usr/include/openssl --with-md5=/usr/include/openssl --with-mail --with-mail_ssl_module --add-module=/build/buildd/nginx-0.8.54/debian/modules/nginx-upstream-fair

For more information: http://nginxlibrary.com/check-nginx-version/

You can use -v parameter to display the Nginx version only, or use the -V parameter to display the version, along with the compiler version and configuration parameters.