Beanstalk deployment ignores my nginx configuration files in .ebextensions

Question

I host my Java webapp on a single-instance Elastic Beanstalk environment and I added several ebextension files which successfully create config files for me upon each deployment. I can't however find a way of getting Beanstalk to add new configs within the /etc/nginx or /etc/nginx/conf.d directories.

I followed the steps described here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/https-singleinstance-java.html

My deployment package structure looks like this:

$ zip -r deploy.zip api-1.0-SNAPSHOT-all.jar .ebextensions
  adding: api-1.0-SNAPSHOT-all.jar (deflated 11%)
  adding: .ebextensions/ (stored 0%)
  adding: .ebextensions/ssl-certificates.config (deflated 37%)
  adding: .ebextensions/https-instance-securitygroup.config (deflated 38%)
  adding: .ebextensions/nginx/ (stored 0%)
  adding: .ebextensions/nginx/conf.d/ (stored 0%)
  adding: .ebextensions/nginx/conf.d/https.conf (deflated 61%)

My files are nearly 1-to-1 copy of samples in the guide above.

During deployment both my *.config files execute successfully, but the /etc/nginx/conf.d/https.conf is missing. I tried to workaround the issue by removing the .ebextensions/nginx directory and replacing it with another .config file that creates /etc/nginx/conf.d/https.conf from scratch, but this didn't help and the file was still missing.

I ssh-ed onto my EC2 instance and here's what I found in /var/log/eb-engine.log:

2020/05/03 19:42:37.754375 [INFO] Executing instruction: configure proxy Nginx
2020/05/03 19:42:37.754393 [WARN] skipping nginx folder under .ebextensions
2020/05/03 19:42:37.754670 [INFO] No plugin in cfn metadata.

I feel like I might have missed something very obvious here, but surprisingly I couldn't find any solution to my problem. Thoughts? Thanks!

Answer 1

I have just solved the same problem.

you can easily solve the problem by configuring the following directory structure.

~/my-app/
|-- readme.md
|-- .ebextensions/
|   |-- options.config       # Option settings
|   -- cloudwatch.config     # Other .ebextensions sections, for example 
-- .platform/
    -- nginx/                # Proxy configuration
        |-- nginx.conf
        -- conf.d/
            -- custom.conf
            -- elasticbeanstalk
               |-- server.conf

for more information, see this url

my /var/log/eb-engine.log showed the message line below.

Running command /bin/sh -c cp -rp /var/app/staging/.platform/nginx/. /var/proxy/staging/nginx

Answer 2

I was facing the same problem. The solution is to put the https.conf file in the path .platform/nginx/conf.d/https.conf and zip it into the deployment package.

See "Reverse proxy configuration" in this link.