Nginx conf in an ElasticBeanstalk - nginx

Question

I'm trying to migrate my EC2 server to an ElasticBeanstalk, everything is running except nginx since it lose it's conf
I'm a beginner on AWS so I tried using .platform (.platform/nginx/conf.d/elasticbeanstalk/nginx.conf, I've also tried .platform/nginx/nginx.conf but it doesn't match include conf.d/elasticbeanstalk/*.conf; from the default nginx.conf)
with this code
#Elastic Beanstalk Nginx Configuration File
index index.php;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
location /api/ {
if (!-e $request_filename){
rewrite ^(.*)$ /api/index.php last;
}
location /api/ {
try_files $uri $uri/ /api/index.php?$query_string;
}
}
location ~ \.php {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8081;
}
But since it didn't seem to work, I tried using .ebextensions with these 2 script
#
# STEP 1 - Create the nginx config file
#
files:
"/tmp/my.nginx.conf" :
mode: "000755"
owner: root
group: root
content: |
#Elastic Beanstalk Nginx Configuration File
user nginx;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
worker_processes auto;
worker_rlimit_nofile 66966;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
include conf.d/*.conf;
map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
default "upgrade";
}
server {
listen 80 default_server;
server_name http://xxx.xxx.eu-west-1.elasticbeanstalk.com/;
index index.php;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
client_header_timeout 180;
client_body_timeout 180;
send_timeout 180;
proxy_connect_timeout 180;
proxy_read_timeout 180;
proxy_send_timeout 180;
keepalive_timeout 180;
fastcgi_send_timeout 180;
fastcgi_read_timeout 180;
gzip off;
gzip_comp_level 4;
gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
# Include the Elastic Beanstalk generated locations
include conf.d/elasticbeanstalk/*.conf;
location /api/ {
if (!-e $request_filename){
rewrite ^(.*)$ /api/index.php last;
}
location /api/ {
try_files $uri $uri/ /api/index.php?$query_string;
}
}
location ~ \.php {
include fastcgi_params;
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8081;
}
}
}
And
#
# STEP 3 - Run the script to overwrite the nginx config template.
#
container_commands:
cp_nginx:
command: "yes | sudo /bin/cp /tmp/my.nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf"
Am I doing something wrong

Answer 1

In the end I made it works using only one file in .platform/nginx
nginx.conf:
#Elastic Beanstalk Nginx Configuration File
user nginx;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
worker_processes auto;
worker_rlimit_nofile 66966;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
include conf.d/*.conf;
map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
default "upgrade";
}
server {
index index.php;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
client_header_timeout 180;
client_body_timeout 180;
send_timeout 180;
proxy_connect_timeout 180;
proxy_read_timeout 180;
proxy_send_timeout 180;
keepalive_timeout 180;
fastcgi_send_timeout 180;
fastcgi_read_timeout 180;
gzip off;
gzip_comp_level 4;
gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
# Include the Elastic Beanstalk generated locations
include conf.d/elasticbeanstalk/*.conf;
location /api/ {
if (!-e $request_filename){
rewrite ^(.*)$ /api/index.php last;
}
location /api/ {
try_files $uri $uri/ /api/index.php?$query_string;
}
}
location ~ \.php {
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8081;
}
}
}
For the explanation, since the file somehow end up dupplicated, you must remove the servername and listen line from the server section
and replace any relative link with an absolute one (in my case include fastcgi_params; => include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;)