How to automate deployment of ngnix configuration on Amazon AWS? - php

Question

i have a created project using symfony 5.
For hosting website i am using amazon AWS.
Amazon AWS instance is using nginx.
Everytime i deploy code using Elastic beanstalk i have to add following lines to the etc/nginx/nginx.conf file
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
if i don't add following configuration and don't restart nginx server then only page of my website is visible . Whenever i try to open another page of website excepts homepage i get following error :
404 Not Found
nginx/1.18.0
How can i automate deployment of the ngnix configuration whenever i upload code using elasticbeanstalk ?

Answer 1

If you want to modify your nginx configuration, you should modify your Configuration Files by extending ElasticBeanstalk as explained here
I will assume you are using Amazon Linux 2, if not the ElasticBeanstalk is working completely differently as documented here.
Elastic Beanstalk (using Amazon Linux 2) will automatically look for a .platform directory at the root of your zip file.
By adding .platform/nginx/conf.d/elasticbeanstalk/php-custom.conf with the following content, you should be good to go (assuming you are using the default configuration). Note that you could overwrite the nginx.conf by adding this file .platform/nginx/nginx.conf to your project, but since what you want to do is fairly simple, I would only add a file that will be automatically loaded by nginx.
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
So your project tree should look something like this.
project root
├── .platform
│   └── nginx
│   └── conf.d
│   └── elasticbeanstalk
│   └── php-custom.conf
└── your project files