How to uninstall nginx

This article mainly introduces how to uninstall nginx compiled and installed on Linuxs.

Delete nginx, –purge includes the configuration file

sudo apt-get --purge remove nginx

Automatically remove all unused software packages

sudo apt-get autoremove

List the software related to nginx

dpkg --get-selections|grep nginx

Execution result:

stephen@stephen-OptiPlex-390:~$ dpkg --get-selections|grep nginx
nginx                       install
nginx-common                install
nginx-core                  install

Delete the query to find out the software related to nginx Relevant software

sudo apt-get --purge remove nginx
sudo apt-get --purge remove nginx-common

This way you can completely uninstall nginx including the configuration file

Check the running process of nginx and kill it if there is one

 ps -ef |grep nginx

Check whether nginx is still started. Generally, after executing 1, nginx is still started, as follows:

stephen@stephen-OptiPlex-390:~$ ps -ef |grep nginx
root      7875  2317  0 15:02 ?        00:00:00 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx
www-data  7876  7875  0 15:02 ?        00:00:00 nginx: worker process
www-data  7877  7875  0 15:02 ?        00:00:00 nginx: worker process
www-data  7878  7875  0 15:02 ?        00:00:00 nginx: worker process
www-data  7879  7875  0 15:02 ?        00:00:00 nginx: worker process
stephen   8321  3510  0 15:20 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto nginx

kill nginx process

sudo kill  -9  7875 7876 7877 7879

Globally search for files related to nginx

sudo  find  /  -name  nginx*

Delete all files listed in sequence

sudo rm -rf file

This will completely delete nginx

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