Chef::Exceptions::ChecksumMismatch when installing nginx-1.7.8 from source - nginx

Question

I get the following error when running vagrant up --provision to set up my development environment with vagrant...
==> default: [2014-12-08T20:33:51+00:00] ERROR: remote_file[http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.7.8.tar.gz] (nginx::source line 58) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::ChecksumMismatch: Checksum on resource (0510af) does not match checksum on content (12f75e)
My chef JSON has the following for nginx:
"nginx": {
"version": "1.7.8",
"user": "deploy",
"init_style": "init",
"modules": [
"http_stub_status_module",
"http_ssl_module",
"http_gzip_static_module"
],
"passenger": {
"version": "4.0.53",
"gem_binary": "/home/vagrant/.rbenv/shims/gem"
},
"configure_flags": [
"--add-module=/home/vagrant/.rbenv/versions/2.1.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/passenger-3.0.18/ext/nginx"
],
"gzip_types": [
"text/plain",
"text/html",
"text/css",
"text/xml",
"text/javascript",
"application/json",
"application/x-javascript",
"application/xml",
"application/xml+rss"
]}
and Cheffile has the following cookbook:
cookbook 'nginx'
How do I resolve the Checksum mismatch?

Answer 1

The nginx cookbook requires you to edit the checksum attribute when using another version of nginx. The remote_file resource that is causing you an error is:
remote_file nginx_url do
source nginx_url
checksum node['nginx']['source']['checksum']
path src_filepath
backup false
end
You need to update the checksum value. Specifically node['nginx']['source']['checksum'].
So in your JSON, you would add this line:
"source": {"checksum": "insert checksum here" }
Edit: As pointed out in the comments, the checksum is SHA256. You can generate the checksum of the file like so:
shasum -a 256 nginx-1.7.8.tar.gz