Nginx - disable autostart

Question

I went through some manuals and I didn't understand yet. How do I disable autostart nginx service?

SirCharlo · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-17T14:20:03.953

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Try this command:

sudo update-rc.d -f nginx disable

edited Aug 17 '12 at 14:20

answered Aug 17 '12 at 14:09

SirCharlo

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I tried sudo update-rc.d -f nginx disable. What is the difference between them? – Alex Malex Aug 17 '12 at 14:15
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The difference is that disable is better! :) You got me. It effectively 'makes dpkg aware of your preference to prevent the startup scripts from being executed (because dpkg runs update-rc.d too)'. Credit to @Lekensteyn for the explanation. – SirCharlo Aug 17 '12 at 14:19
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I already run disable and then remove. How can I undo it? – Alex Malex Aug 17 '12 at 14:32
Umm.. You want to enable autostart now? – SirCharlo Aug 17 '12 at 14:34
I want to undo remove. And then call disable again if necessary. – Alex Malex Aug 17 '12 at 15:22
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sudo update-rc.d nginx defaults; sudo update-rc.d -f nginx disable – SirCharlo Aug 17 '12 at 15:26
Apparently does not works on Ubunu 20.10. – Fernando Kosh Mar 12 '21 at 18:22

S.M.Mousavi · Answer 2 · 2020-09-15T05:19:13.143

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Update:
I made changes to supports more distributions:

use this:

sudo systemctl disable nginx

It will disable it and if you like to stop running service use this:

sudo systemctl stop nginx

works on Ubuntu and any Systemd based distributions

edited Sep 15 '20 at 05:19

answered Oct 09 '17 at 06:22

S.M.Mousavi

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it works on ububut 18.04 as well – Amrit Shrestha Oct 01 '19 at 05:10
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If you're going to use systemd style, use it for everything, don't have some weird mashup of using the service shim for some commands. That second one should just be sudo systemctl stop nginx. – Félix Saparelli Sep 12 '20 at 12:26
Also works on ububut 20.10 as well – Fernando Kosh Mar 12 '21 at 18:22
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This approach is better. – EGurelli Oct 13 '21 at 03:46

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