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Keep files Nginx conf issue

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
nginx

Research direction

Start with the keep-file instructions at http://docs.engineyard.com/configuration-keep-files.html and inspect how nginx.conf loads app.conf and keep.app.conf. Reproduce the conflict described in the issue, then determine and document a configuration that avoids loading both files; done means the keep-file workflow no longer causes an nginx configuration conflict.

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Description

If you follow the instructions on this page http://docs.engineyard.com/configuration-keep-files.html to create a keep file for your application.conf then it results in a conflict with the nginx config.

The server will try to load both the keep.app.conf as well as app.conf.

I just changed the nginx.conf to load app.conf instead of *.conf but it would be good to have a better solution.

Dominant language
JavaScript
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26
Forks
11
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