Customizing Nginx Configuration in AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Question

I\'m running a rails application on Ruby 2.0/Puma instances and am trying to customize the nginx configuration. I need to increase the permitted request size to allow file uploa

Answer 1

I got it working like this. No need to restart or reload nginx since the commands (and not container_commands) runes BEFORE the application deploy.

commands: 
  01-get-nginx-conf-file:
    command: "aws s3 cp s3://somepath/nginx.conf /home/ec2-user"
  02-replace-default-nginx-config:
    command: "cp /home/ec2-user/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf"