Any good way to programmatically change nginx config file from python?

Question

I have a python script that dynamically alters nginx config file (nginx.conf). Since nginx configuration is not in ini format, i currently use some regexp to parse and modify file content. Is it the only way or some better way to programmatically alter nginx configuration exist?

Answer 1

1. https://www.npmjs.com/package/nginx-conf

2. You might use the PyNginxConfig Parser. http://code.google.com/p/pynginxconfig/source/browse/pynginxconfig.py#208 This implementation is close to the original one.

3. There is also ServerMgr. It's not really a parser, just allows for basic mappings.

4. Last but not least, actually first, because based on pyparsing: https://github.com/fatiherikli/nginxparser

   pip install git+https://github.com/fatiherikli/nginxparser.git

Answer 2

NGINX Inc started providing a library in 2017 that is a "quick and reliable way to convert NGINX configurations into JSON and back." It's called crossplan and you can get it with pip.

pip install crossplane

With this you can parse a file to JSON, deserialize, manipulate, serialize back to JSON, and then convert back to the NGINX config file format.