I am on FC6. Initially I used yum to install nginx. It works fine except that it picked up an older version. I wanted the latest version, so I compiled it with the latest nginx source. By default, it installs nginx in /usr/local/nginx. Unfortunately, I can't start nginx with the service command, I have to start it by typing out the whole path to the nginx executable, /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx. When I used yum, I could use the service command to start nginx. Is there a way for me to install nginx so that I can use the service command? I am guessing that yum puts the exes in a common location so that service can pick it up but I can't find where that location is.

You need to create/replace script in /etc/init.d for controlling Nginx. This article might be helpful for you: http://blog.labratz.net/articles/200...ongrel-cluster

well, just for info, for what purpose, you're using Nginx? simple webserver or as load balancer?

Regards,

That doesn't help me adapt nginx to use the service command though, right? Like
"service nginx start", "service nginx stop", "servie nginx restart", etc.

I am using nginx as webserver and load balancer talking to a mongrel cluster. I have been using Apache up until now but it is a memory hog. I am seeing significant reduction in memory usage by nginx so far.