ELK playbook example error in nginx.conf

Try and errors

Tried same ‘ELK Playbook’ example in the ‘ELK Logging with Ansible’ of the chapter 8 with some supplements.

supplements and run

1. Make the provisioning/requirements.yml file.

   ---
   - src: geerlingguy.java
   - src: geerlingguy.nginx
   - src: geerlingguy.elasticsearch
   - src: geerlingguy.elasticsearch-curator
   - src: geerlingguy.kibana
   - src: geerlingguy.logstash
   - src: geerlingguy.logstash-forwarder
   

2. ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml
3. Place the Vagrantfile in the provisioning folder.
4. Modify two lines in the Vagranfile.

   ansible.playbook = "elk/playbook.yml"      # origin: "provisioning/elk/playbook.yml"
   ansible.inventory_path = "elk/inventory"   # origin: "provisioning/elk/inventory"
   

5. vagrant up

errors

TASK [geerlingguy.nginx : Ensure nginx is started and enabled to start at boot.] ***
fatal: [logs]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "nginx: [emerg] invalid number of arguments in \"access_log\" directive in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:27\nnginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed\n"}

I’ve jumped with vagrant ssh and checked /etc/nginx/nginx.conf below. But I can’t find any weird points.

user  www-data;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
pid        /run/nginx.pid;

worker_processes  2;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
    multi_accept off;
}

http {

    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;

    client_max_body_size 64m;

    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                       '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                       '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log main buffer=16k flush=2m;

    sendfile        on;
    tcp_nopush      on;
    tcp_nodelay     on;

    keepalive_timeout  65;
    keepalive_requests 100;

    server_tokens on;

    # gzip on;



    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;

    }

Environments and dependencies

OS: Elementary OS Loki (based on Ubuntu 16.04)

ansible 2.5.4
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = [u'/home/<username>/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
  python version = 2.7.12 (default, Dec  4 2017, 14:50:18) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609]

[geerlingguy]

Thanks for the report; I’ll try to get to updating the ELK example soon. It’s one of the few that I haven’t had the time to update in a while (and a LOT has changed in the ELK ecosystem in the past year or so…)

[geerlingguy]

Closing this issue in favor of https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-for-devops/issues/196, as I will be reworking the example in its entirety.