Description

Manage nginx server configuration files.

Requirements

• Nginx recipe.
• Ubuntu/Debian

Attributes

See a list of all attributes.

Usage

Add the nginx_conf recipe to your runlist.

confs

Rather then accessing the LWRP directly, add a site hash to the confs attribute list.

node['nginx_conf']['confs'] = [{
  'test1.mywebsite.com' => {
    'socket' => "/var/www/myapp/shared/tmp/sockets/unicorn.socket"
  },
  'test2.mywebsite.com' => {
    'root' => "/var/www/myapp"
  },
  'test3.mywebsite.com' => {
    'action' => :disable
  },
  'test4.mywebsite.com' => {
    'action' => :delete
  },
}]

Create

Creates a nginx configuration in the sites-available directory, tests it, symlinks to sites-enabled, and restarts nginx. See a list of all LWRP attributes.

nginx_conf_file "mywebsite.com" do
  socket "/var/www/myapp/shared/tmp/sockets/unicorn.socket"
end

Outputs to sites-available/mywebsite.com:

server {
  listen 80;

  server_name mywebsite.com;

  location / {
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    proxy_redirect off;
    proxy_pass http://unix:/var/www/myapp/shared/tmp/sockets/unicorn.socket;
  }
}

Creating a static conf is even easier.

nginx_conf_file "mywebsite.com" do
  root "/var/www/myapp"
end

Outputs to sites-available/mywebsite.com:

server {
  listen 80;

  server_name mywebsite.com;

  root "/var/www/myapp";
}

Disable

Removes the symlink between sites-enabled and sites-available for the named configuration.

nginx_conf_file "mywebsite.com" do
  action :disable
end

Delete

Removes the symlink and deletes the configuration:

nginx_conf_file "mywebsite.com" do
  action :delete
end

Testing

We use kitchen-test to check basic functionality. To run tests:

bundle install
kitchen test

NOTE: This will download a vagrant basebox for Ubuntu 10.04 and setup vagrant at test/kitchen/.kitchen