---
title: "restart nginx"
date: 2021-02-07T00:33:09+01:00
draft: false
snippet_types:
- nginx
---

Normally I use
```shell
$ sudo systemctl restart nginx
```

but recently I had to take more drastic measures.

```shell
sudo pkill -f nginx & wait $!
sudo systemctl start nginx
```

source -- [stackoverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14972792/nginx-nginx-emerg-bind-to-80-failed-98-address-already-in-use)