Undo main nginx.conf changes about ansible-role-nginx-config HOT 6 CLOSED

Sorry for the extra delay dealing with this! I have an idea on how to achieve this but it might have to wait until an upcoming templating refactor gets finished.

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Hi @rolandjitsu! There's no way to restore/undo changes made to any of the default NGINX configuration files (nginx.confand conf.d/default.conf) using the role.

However, your previous configuration file should be backed up any time you deploy a new template. In which case you can simply delete the templated file you have right now, change the file name of the backup to nginx.conf, and run nginx -s reload to achieve a seamless reload. Otherwise, you can grab the default nginx.conf from a different location (eg by deploying an NGINX Docker container), and use the nginx_main_upload_* parameters to push the default nginx.conf to your target host. And as final option, you can always delete NGINX and redeploy your role.

All that being said, I think your feature request makes sense. I'll add it to the backlog 😄

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@alessfg thanks for getting back to me.

There's no way to restore/undo changes made to any of the default NGINX configuration files (nginx.confand conf.d/default.conf) using the role.

Ok, I understand.

However, your previous configuration file should be backed up any time you deploy a new template. In which case you can simply delete the templated file you have right now, change the file name of the backup to nginx.conf, and run nginx -s reload to achieve a seamless reload. Otherwise, you can grab the default nginx.conf from a different location (eg by deploying an NGINX Docker container), and use the nginx_main_upload_* parameters to push the default nginx.conf to your target host. And as final option, you can always delete NGINX and redeploy your role.

I was also thinking about that, I just didn't want to do this manually for every host.

All that being said, I think your feature request makes sense. I'll add it to the backlog

Sounds great, looking forward to it.

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Bumping this to 0.16.0 since properly implementing an undo option would also have to implement a rollback feature and the latter will take some extra development time.

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As of the latest release, if you run the role with nginx_config_main_template_enable set to true but leave the nginx_config_main_template defaults, you should be able to recreate a close to the default original nginx.conf file. I think that's good enough?

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Closing this for the time being since I think the current solution is pretty close to the original intent of this issue. Feel free to reopen the issue if that's not the case! 😄

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