Simple Chef recipe to customize Nginx configuration on Engine Yard App Cloud

custom.conf.erb

# cookbooks/nginx-custom/templates/default/custom.conf.erb

rewrite ^/members/(.*)/blog_entries/(.*)$  /members/$1/blog/$2 permanent;

default.rb

# cookbooks/nginx-custom/recipes/default.rb
#
# Cookbook Name: nginx-custom
# Recipe: default
#

if (['app_master', 'app'].include?(node[:instance_role]))
  node[:engineyard][:environment][:apps].each do |app|
    template "/etc/nginx/servers/#{app[:name]}/custom.conf" do
      source 'custom.conf.erb'
      owner node[:users][0][:username]
      group node[:users][0][:username]
      mode 0644
    end

    execute "sudo /etc/init.d/nginx reload"
  end
end