Creating nginx virtual hosts
Assuming you have nginx
installed, you want to manage your websites with Chef. You need to create an nginx
configuration file for your website and upload your HTML file(s). Let's see how to do this.
Getting ready
Make sure that you have a cookbook named my_cookbook
, as described in the Creating and using cookbooks recipe in Chapter 1, Chef Infrastructure.
- Create
Berksfile
in your Chef repository includingmy_cookbook
:mma@laptop:~/chef-repo $ subl Berksfile
cookbook 'my_cookbook', path: './cookbooks/my_cookbook'
- Create or edit a role called
web_server
with the following content:mma@laptop:~/chef-repo $ subl roles/web_server.rb
name "web_server" run_list "recipe[my_cookbook]" default_attributes "nginx" => { "init_style" ...
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