# Wishlist item - store configure options

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wishlist-item-store-configure-options/157053>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [January 6, 2009, 10:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wishlist-item-store-configure-options/157053 "2009-01-06T22:50:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![jonny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jonny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonny)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 10:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wishlist-item-store-configure-options/157053/1 "2009-01-06T22:50:25Z")

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just wanted to wishlist this…

it would be really neat if one could call something like…

nginx --install\_options

or something similar, which would just list all the arguments to ./  
configure when nginx was originally installed

i just had to battle with updating an install on a box that wasn’t  
built by me, and it wasn’t fun.

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**Author:** ![jonny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jonny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonny)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wishlist-item-store-configure-options/157053/2 "2009-01-06T23:07:27Z")

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-V.

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**Author:** ![jonny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jonny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonny)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2009, 11:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wishlist-item-store-configure-options/157053/3 "2009-01-06T23:08:03Z")

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# nginx -V

or

# /path/to/nginx -V

Jim

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**Author:** ![jonny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jonny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonny)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wishlist-item-store-configure-options/157053/4 "2009-01-07T00:30:04Z")

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Christmas came 360 days early this year!

man nginx only lists this:

OPTIONS  
A summary of options is included below:

```
     -c <configuration file> Specifies a particular configuration

```

file for nginx to load.  
-v Show version of program.  
-t Tests nginx configuration

So i guess what I really need is a documents update 😉

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**Author:** ![jonny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jonny](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonny)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 2:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wishlist-item-store-configure-options/157053/5 "2009-01-07T14:26:25Z")

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Hello!

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 06:21:50PM -0500, Jonathan V. wrote:

> ```
> -t Tests nginx configuration
> 
> ```
> 
> So i guess what I really need is a documents update 😉

There is no official manpage for nginx. It’s probably something  
added by your package builder, ask him for update.

Official documentation for command-line switches is here (in  
russian):

[http://sysoev.ru/nginx/docs/switches.html](http://sysoev.ru/nginx/docs/switches.html)

Corresponding english wiki page is:

[http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxCommandLine](http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxCommandLine)

Maxim D.

p.s. As for Christmas, the reason seems clear. Here in Russia we  
celebrate Christmas at January 7. 🙂