What is the best way to uninstall nginx

Question

I'm trying to add new module to nginx with naxsi, but I should reinstall nginx. What is the better way of removing nginx?

score 422 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 09 '20 at 22:51

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Removes all but config files.

sudo apt-get remove nginx nginx-common

Removes everything.

sudo apt-get purge nginx nginx-common

After using any of the above commands, use this in order to remove dependencies used by nginx which are no longer required.

sudo apt-get autoremove

edited Jan 09 '20 at 22:51

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answered Jan 02 '13 at 20:25

squareborg

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`rm -rf /etc/nginx` to remove the conf files too. – scarver2 Nov 09 '13 at 21:10
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@scarver2 This is old, but that's what `apt-get purge` does. – squareborg Jul 20 '14 at 13:48
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Try also `sudo apt-get purge nginx-common` – Francisco Luz Feb 16 '15 at 03:31
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With Ubuntu 14.04, it's now: `sudo apt-get remove nginx-full nginx-common` – Viet Apr 24 '16 at 20:20
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also remove your ppa archive if you have some in you /etc/apt/source.list – Balman Rawat Jul 19 '17 at 04:55
So there are different packages of nginx : nginx, nginx-full and nginx-common. Right? – Mohammed Shareef C Sep 14 '17 at 13:43
`nginx-core` needs to be removed too – Mostafiz Rahman Dec 30 '17 at 05:26
This answer helped me to remove ngnix from ec2 [this](https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/deployment-guides/amazon-ec2-instances-for-nginx/) is how it was installed with ansible. – Yevgeniy Afanasyev Nov 30 '18 at 06:32
also disable startup script on boot: `sudo systemctl disable nginx` – mahfuz Nov 14 '19 at 08:27
Try `sudo apt purge nginx nginx-common nginx-core ; sudo apt autoremove` – Anderson May 30 '23 at 14:36

score 11 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 19 '21 at 04:12

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Uninstall everything and install once again

sudo apt remove --purge nginx*
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx

Enjoy

answered Sep 19 '21 at 04:12

MD SHAYON

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