Dump nginx config from running process?

Posted by Sergio Tulentsev on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Sergio Tulentsev
Published on 2012-02-18T06:49:04Z Indexed on 2012/04/01 17:32 UTC
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Apparently, I shouldn't have spent sleepless night trying to debug an application. I wanted to restart my nginx and discovered that its config file is empty. I don't remember truncating it, but fat fingers and reduced attention probably played their part.

I don't have backup of that config file. I know I should have made it.

Good for me, current nginx daemon is still running. Is there a way to dump its configuration to a config file that it'll understand later?

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