Nginx Upstart script (Ubuntu 12.04)

nginx.conf

### Nginx upstart script
### source: http://serverfault.com/a/391737/70451
### /etc/init/nginx.conf

description "nginx http daemon"

start on (filesystem and net-device-up IFACE=lo)
stop on runlevel [!2345]

env DAEMON=/usr/local/sbin/nginx
env PIDFILE=/var/run/nginx.pid

# Needed to allow Nginx to start, however, the wrong PID will be tracked
expect fork

# Test the nginx configuration (Upstart will not proceed if this fails)
pre-start exec $DAEMON -t

# Ensure nginx is shutdown gracefully
# Upstart will be tracking the wrong PID so the following is needed to stop nginx
post-stop exec $DAEMON -s stop

# Start Nginx
exec $DAEMON

Working for me without the post-stop line. Ubuntu 12.04.1 and nginx 2.1.4

As stated in init file, the incorrect PID will be found. This causes problems if you have lots of forks (like if you use Passenger) Try this one instead: https://gist.github.com/2492523

I updated the script; the previous version didn't stop nginx correctly anymore.
The post-stop trigger now runs $ nginx -s stop to stop the current nginx instance.

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Seeing the same problem on Ubuntu 12.04.1 w/ nginx 1.2.3....post-stop addition at least gets it working.

Working for me without the post-stop line. CentOS 6.x
"pre-stop exec $DAEMON -s stop" is ok

This helped me troubleshoot the screwy nginx stops on my server. Ubuntu 12.04.4.
The line that worked for me was:
post-stop exec $DAEMON -s quit