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I know how to gracefully restart Apache web server under Unix like operating system. I made changes to nginx.conf. How do I gracefully restart Nginx web server? How do I make changes in a Nginx server config file to take effect without restarting the Nginx server itself without interrupting users’ current session?
Hi Vivek, this is your faithful nitpicker 
Someway down you write
Nginx web server accepts the following single. The master process can handle the following signals:
The last word in the first sentence should read signal, but I have the feeling that the two sentences should be merged anyway.
Thank you for your tutorials - I am always learning from them.
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@guntbert thanks for the heads up! The page has been updated. I appreciate your post.