How does Linux view nginx version?

1. Check the version number of nginx installed on the server, mainly through the -v or -V option of nginx, as shown in the following figure.

-v shows the version of nginx.

-V displays the version, compiler version and configuration parameters of nginx.

[root@zq ~]# nginx -V

nginx version: nginx/1.16.1

built by gcc 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-36) (GCC)

built with OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips 26 Jan 2017

TLS SNI support enabled

configure arguments: – prefix=/etc/nginx – sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx – modules-path=/usr/lib64/nginx/modules – conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf – error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log – http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log – pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid – lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock – http-client-body-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/client_temp – http-proxy-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/proxy_temp – http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/fastcgi_temp – http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/uwsgi_temp – http-scgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/scgi_temp – user=nginx – group=nginx – with-compat – with-file-aio – with-threads – with-http_addition_module – with-http_auth_request_module – with-http_dav_module – with-http_flv_module – with-http_gunzip_module – with-http_gzip_static_module – with-http_mp4_module – with-http_random_index_module – with-http_realip_module – with-http_secure_link_module – with-http_slice_module – with-http_ssl_module – with-http_stub_status_module – with-http_sub_module – with-http_v2_module – with-mail – with-mail_ssl_module – with-stream – with-stream_realip_module – with-stream_ssl_module – with-stream_ssl_preread_module – with-cc-opt=’ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong – param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -fPIC’  – with-ld-opt=’ -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -pie’

2. use rpm -qa | grep nginx to view the version of nginx.

[root@zq ~]# rpm -qa | grep nginx

nginx-1.16.1-1.el7.ngx.x86_64

3. Use curl -i 127.0.0.1.

[root@zq ~]# curl -i 127.0.0.1

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Server: nginx/1.16.1

Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 01:56:15 GMT

Content-Type: text/html

Content-Length: 612

Last-Modified: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:04:31 GMT

Connection: keep-alive

ETag: 5d52d17f-264

Accept-Ranges: bytes

Welcome to nginx!

body {

width: 35em;

margin: 0 auto;

font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;

}

Welcome to nginx!

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