Installing nginx via chef Role is not applying my changes

Question

I wrote a role to use the default nginx cookbook. The role is not applying any of my attributes. It keeps installing nginx 1.2.1.

{
  "name": "nginx",

  "json_class": "Chef::Role",
  "chef_type": "role",

  "override_attributes": {
    "nginx": {
      "version": "1.5.13",
      "default_site_enabled": true
    }
  },

  "run_list": [
    "recipe[nginx]"
  ]
}

Any idea why this is?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 11 '14 at 17:39

default_site_enabled = true is already the default.

Specifying a version usually doesn't work (might depends on the operating system) with the install_method = 'package', as this is ignored and the current version installed through the package manager (e.g. apt).

Thus, all the things that you set won't have any effect.

Installing nginx via chef Role is not applying my changes

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