How to restart ngnix server on CentOS

Question

I recent buy a VPS on DigitalOcean and installed CentOS and follow the tutorial to install Ngnix Server, then I follow the tutorial to create a Virtual Host, but when I put this command to restart:

sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart

Console output an error:

sudo: /etc/init.d/nginx: command not found

I already search on Google and here for how to solve, but I didn't found solutions.

Solution

recommend way is as follows. This should work with any Linux distributions or Unix like operating systems:

$ nginx -s reload

OR

$ /path/to/full/nginx -s reload

If nginx compiled and installed from source code

$ /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -s reload