I have been experimenting with nginx as a webserver for php files. I come from an Apache background but I wanted to try it. I recently had an issue with it and needed to switch back to Apache. I removed it using apt-get remove nginx.

This worked fine and I installed Apache and life was good. I restarted my computer and somehow nginx started up. I didn't understand. I tried to remove it again and I got the message:

$ sudo apt-get remove nginx

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Package 'nginx' is not installed, so not removed

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

If I look for the program (screenshot):

$ which nginx

/usr/sbin/nginx

Does anyone know if I am doing something wrong or what the next step to removing it would be?

I am using Xubuntu 14.04.