nginx: [emerg] unknown directive "upload_pass" after dist-upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS

[Ben Johnson]

Hello!

I performed a dist-upgrade, from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS, and once
the dust had settled, nginx refused to start with:

nginx: [emerg] unknown directive "upload_pass" in
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/example.com.vhost:95

The "upload_pass" directive appears to be part of the HttpUploadModule.
This module was clearly installed before the dist-upgrade, because the
vhost in question functioned as expected before applying the upgrade.

It is not clear which Ubuntu package includes this module. I figured,
"What the hell..." and installed nginx-extras, which is supposed to
include all of the most commonly used modules, yet the problem persists.

It seems unlikely that the name of this directive changed. What other
explanations are there?

Thanks for any ideas! Full configuration provided below.

-Ben

# nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/1.6.0
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --with-cc-opt='-g -O2 -fstack-protector
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' --with-ld-opt='-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
-Wl,-z,relro' --prefix=/usr/share/nginx
--conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
--http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log
--error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log
--lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock --pid-path=/run/nginx.pid
--http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/body
--http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/fastcgi
--http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/proxy
--http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/scgi
--http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/uwsgi --with-debug --with-pcre-jit
--with-ipv6 --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_stub_status_module
--with-http_realip_module --with-http_auth_request_module
--with-http_addition_module --with-http_dav_module
--with-http_flv_module --with-http_geoip_module
--with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_image_filter_module
--with-http_mp4_module --with-http_perl_module
--with-http_random_index_module --with-http_secure_link_module
--with-http_spdy_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_xslt_module
--with-mail --with-mail_ssl_module
--add-module=/build/buildd/nginx-1.6.0/debian/modules/headers-more-nginx-module
--add-module=/build/buildd/nginx-1.6.0/debian/modules/nginx-auth-pam
--add-module=/build/buildd/nginx-1.6.0/debian/modules/nginx-cache-purge
--add-module=/build/buildd/nginx-1.6.0/debian/modules/nginx-dav-ext-module
--add-module=/build/buildd/nginx-1.6.0/debian/modules/nginx-development-kit
--add-module=/build/buildd/nginx-1.6.0/debian/modules/nginx-echo
--add-module=/build/buildd/nginx-1.6.0/debian/modules/ngx-fancyindex
--add-module=/build/buildd/nginx-1.6.0/debian/modules/nginx-http-push
--add-module=/build/buildd/nginx-1.6.0/debian/modules/nginx-lua
--add-module=/build/buildd/nginx-1.6.0/debian/modules/nginx-upload-progress
--add-module=/build/buildd/nginx-1.6.0/debian/modules/nginx-upstream-fair --add-module=/build/buildd/nginx-1.6.0/debian/modules/ngx_http_substitutions_filter_module