from scatch

[defong]

using chef/ubuntu-14.04

issue

when you just do

chef.run_list = [
  "recipe[nginx::default]"
]

which is like sudo apt-get install nginx

it spins up nginx on localhost:80

but the nginx.pid is never created
you can find the pid using
ps aux | grep nginx

which in turns leading to
sudo service nginx status
displaying its as not running

or any sudo service nginx cmd
as not working as port 80 is already binded

no default file is made for
/var/www/nginx-default/index.html

more of a annoyance then anything else as i was just trying to get my head around chef and nginx

[boffbowsh]

I fixed this by including the "nginx::repo" recipe first before the main recipe.

[defong]

chef.run_list = [
"recipe[nginx::repo]"
"recipe[nginx::default]"
]

so just doing this will be fine then?

[lightpriest]

This happened to me as well. When nginx is installed from the normal Ubuntu repositores, it comes with pid path set to /run/nginx.pid. The package starts the service, then the cookbook changes the files so that the pid path is now /var/run/nginx.pid.

It causes /etc/init.d/nginx to lose track of the pid file that actually references the running nginx instance at install time.

There are two ways to work around the issue in a clean way:

1. As stated by @boffbowsh, including recipe[nginx::repo] in the run_list. The package from the nginx repos use /var/run/nginx.pid like the cookbook does.
2. Changing the attribute node['nginx']['pid'] if you want to continue using nginx packages from the official dist repo.

[austburn]

Seems like a fix for this might just be updating this to be:

if platform == 'ubuntu'
   default['nginx']['pid'] = '/run/nginx.pid'
end

*edit: well, probably not that general. I ran into this problem as well. The repo fix worked great. I feel like there should be a more straightforward approach/fix to this problem.

[rmoriz]

fix from d2b954e should be more generic and support later versions. Any volunteers who want to find out when Ubuntu started to change it?

[lightpriest]

@rmoriz Looks like it appeared in 13.04 raring (nginx-common = 1.2.6-1ubuntu3.3). Prior to that, nginx-common <= 1.2.1, used /var/run/nginx.pid.

[iennae]

I think that this was resolved. If it's still a problem with the current version of the cookbook please reopen with additional details.

[lock]

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