Best way to reload nginx.conf

[Epigene]

Hi, not a bug report, just wondering how to best do things.

I am deploying a rails app running on puma behind nginx.

So far I have a task for linking the app's nginx.conf into sites-enabled like so:

desc "Takes care of nginx conf"
task :nginx_link => :environment do
  queue! %[ln -nfs /home/deployer/apps/#{app_name}/current/config/deploy/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/#{app_name}]
  queue! %[ln -nfs /home/deployer/apps/#{app_name}/current/config/deploy/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-available/#{app_name}]
  #queue! %[sudo nginx -s reload]
end

My problem is that the nginx configuration does not seem to reload to take the latest changes into account so I need to run sudo nginx -s reload which requires me to enter the sudo password.

I am looking into setting up this command for the deployer user to run without password following http://askubuntu.com/questions/73864/how-to-modify-a-invalid-etc-sudoers-file-it-throws-out-an-error-and-not-allowi

Am I on the right track or perhaps there is a way to pass sudo password to mina in deploy.rb and have it pass automagically?

Thanks!

[d4be4st]

We have for our servers created a few lines in sudoer file that allow deploy user to reload nginx.

deploy ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/nginx reload

and added an alias to .bashrc file

alias nginx-reload='sudo /etc/init.d/nginx reload'

now our deploy users can reload nginx without sudo privileges

[Epigene]

Yup, ended up doing it like that.

Note to others, use sudo visudo -f /etc/sudoers.d/deployer to enter the line adding interface correctly.