[chef] Re: managing custom apache configs chef

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Zippy Zeppoli 
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 wrote:
> Is it possible to do the following with Chef and an httpd.conf file.
> Here is my logic:
>
> if environment_name (perhaps comes from a file on the system) == PRODUCTION
> then sed -i s/LogLevel DEBUG/LogLevel INFO/
> fi

You should definitely do this in a template rather than using sed.

> So basically if a server meets some condition, then modify the file that is
> being managed by chef.
>
> Are there any example recipes/cookbooks to this point?

There are many recipes that use node.chef_environment, which retrieves
the current environment you have configured in chef. Before the
environments feature, folks often used a databag for this information.

https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/munin/blob/master/recipes/server_nginx.rb

To do exactly what you'd want, you'd modify the apache2.conf.erb
template in the apache2 cookbook like so:

https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/apache2/blob/master/templates/default/apache2.conf.erb#L139

<% if node.chef_environment == "production" -%>
LogLevel INFO
<% else -%>
LogLevel DEBUG
<% end -%>

Bryan