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Good info. And it's clear that you're differentiating between reload and restart
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| ## Apply the updated signatures | ||
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| Updated signatures don't take effect until you reload NGINX. Until you reload, F5 WAF for NGINX keeps running the previous signatures. |
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I think this paragraph and the next could be improved. The first 2 sentences are a bit redundant
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@JTorreG is this change better "Updated signatures take effect after you reload NGINX. Until then, F5 WAF for NGINX keeps running the previous signatures."?
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| - `nginx -s reload` | ||
| - `sudo systemctl reload nginx` | ||
| - On all platforms: `nginx -s reload` |
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Al platforms or all except the ones in the next step?
For the ones in the next step are both commands necessary?
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Does this change clarify things?
- On all platforms:
nginx -s reload - On systemd-based platforms (Amazon Linux, Debian, Oracle Linux, RHEL, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu), you can reload NGINX with:
sudo systemctl reload nginxinstead
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What about when the user upgrades signatures in the compiler image? |
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