nginx doesn't seem to register configuration changes

[Nicholas Wieland]

Hi *, I’m using nginx as reverse proxy for some puma backends via unix socket.
The problem I’m having right now is that even after several reloads nginx doesn’t seem to use the changes I did to the configuration. I honestly have no idea what to try as this is definitely very weird. The problem appears to be the upstream directive, nginx keeps using the old url to the old socket, even though I changed it.

deployer at demo:~$ uname -a
Linux demo.ec.thefool.it 3.2.0-37-virtual #58-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 24 15:48:03 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
deployer at demo:~$ sudo nginx -v
nginx version: nginx/1.4.1

My conf:
https://gist.github.com/ngw/91312b5602816cfb2632

The error:
014/04/01 12:10:43 [crit] 30954#0: *1 connect() to unix:///home/deployer/apps/conversationflow/puma.sock failed (2: No such file or directory) while connecting to upstream, client: 93.51.167.60, server: demo.ec.thefool.it, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://unix:///home/deployer/apps/conversationflow/puma.sock:/", host: “demo.ec.thefool.it"

This is the only error I get.
As you can see puma.sock is in the wrong place, the correct one is the one I configured (obviously).
I’ve also tried to change the socket path to something I made up, and nginx registers the change and behaves accordingly. If I change the socket path to the real one, here we go and it doesn’t use it…
Any suggestion?

  ngw

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