Sorry for top-posting, but I found my mistake. I didn't know we could not
set 'require' more than once. It now looks obvious but it wasn't when I
was working on it.
Ugo
On Monday, November 24, 2014 12:38:33 PM UTC-5, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've written my own puppet module for apache because I found that the
> publicly-available ones had many dependencies or were too complex for me.
> I'm not a puppet expert and I'm using EPEL's puppet which is 2.7.25.
>
> Here is the relevant part of my code that is used to create the apache
> .conf file for our environments. Our environments follow this standard:
>
> for dev: /var/www/dev/$user/$application/
>
> for other environments stages: /var/www/$envstage/$application/
>
> The logs are located in a directory called "logs" in the $application
> folder.
>
> My current puppet codes does everything that is needed to create an
> environment, but it doesn't manage the order, so it may happen that the
> logs folder is created after the apache refresh and cause a problem.
>
> I have a few (less-related) questions regarding this:
>
> - Does puppet manage the creation of the parent directories as of now?
> - I've had unplanned outages (nothing critical, clients/users were
> warned on dev and staging environments) because the refresh was done
> before
> the logs directory was created
> - Should I implement file syntax checking for httpd .conf files?
> Should it be on file-level or should it be in the refresh parameter of
> the
> service? (Something similar to restart => '/usr/sbin/apachectl -t
> && /etc/init.d/httpd graceful',
>
>
> When I add a require => File directives, it fails with an error that looks
> like that:
>
> Duplicate parameter 'require' for on
> File[/etc/httpd/conf.d/blabla-integration1.conf] at
> /etc/puppet/modules/apache/manifests/vhost.pp
>
> Here is the relevant part of my code:
>
>
> $logdir = "$vhost_base/logs"
>
> if $envstage != 'dev' {
> file { [ "$logdir", "/var/www/$envstage", "$vhost_base", ]:
> ensure => 'directory',
> owner => 'deploy',
> group => 'deploy',
> mode => 0744,
> }
> }
> # Generate the .conf file for the vhost
> file {
> "${vdir}/${name}.conf":
> content => template($template),
> owner => 'root',
> group => 'root',
> mode => '0644',
> require => "$logdir",
> require => Package['httpd'],
> notify => Service['httpd'],
> }
>
> What would be the best way to manage that? Separate my file resources in
> 3 separate directives?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ugo
>
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