[chef] Re: web_app.conf.erb Template Not Found

[Joshua Timberman < >]

By default, you need to put the template in the templates/default/
directory of the cookbook where you use the web_app define. You can
add a 'cookbook' parameter to the resource to specify another cookbook
where the template lives.

Also, take a look at the file specificity information for templates here:

http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Templates#Templates-TemplateLocationSpecificity

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:06 PM,  
<
 >
 wrote:
> I'm writing a cookbook to deploy  a rails app.  I'm using the deploy 
> resource
> then using the web_app definition to create the passenger conf file.
>
> The client error's out and the server log shows:
>  ~ Preferred template list: {}
>  ~ Searching for preferred file in
>  ~ Looking for 
> host-domU-12-31-39-00-31-62.compute-1.internal/web_app.conf.erb
>  ~ Looking for centos-5.4/web_app.conf.erb
>  ~ Looking for centos/web_app.conf.erb
>  ~ Looking for default/web_app.conf.erb
> merb : worker (port 4000) ~ Cannot find a preferred file for 
> web_app.conf.erb!
> - (Chef::Exceptions::FileNotFound)
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.7.14/lib/chef/mixin/find_preferred_file.rb:87:in
> `find_preferred_file'
>
> My first thought was that since I have the standard cookbooks and my own
> cookbooks in seperate repo's this might be the root cause, but I copied the
> apache and passenger cookbooks into the same repo where I have my 'local'
> cookbooks but that didn't seem to help.
>
> Any one have any thoughts on how to fix?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
>
>
>
>
> RECIPE:
>
> include_recipe "apache2"
> include_recipe "passenger_apache2"
>
> # ..snipped the deploy part
>
> web_app node[:app_name] do
>  docroot "/src/apps/#{node[:app_name]}/current/public"
>  server_name "example.com"
>  rails_env "production"
> end
>



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