Error during nginx restart

[Francis Daly]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 03:07:50PM +0100, Antony wrote:

Hi there,

> In the official Lemonldap installation documentation, there is this
> command: "ln -s /etc/lemonldap-ng/nginx-lmlog.conf
> /etc/nginx/conf.d/llng-lmlog.conf".

Can you give a link to that documentation; and maybe to the content of
the config files?

> The problem is that when the symbolic link between the two files is
> created, if I want to restart nginx this is impossible because an error
> appears: duplicate "log_format" name "lm_combined" in
> /etc/lemonldap-ng/nginx-lmlog.conf
> 
> Do you have a solution for me?

My guess is that one part of a config file does "include
/etc/lemonldap-ng/nginx-lmlog.conf"; and another part does "include
/etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf".

With the symlink in place, the same contents are included twice; and
they have a piece that must only exist once.

If that is the case, then omitting the symlink should work -- the explicit
"include /etc/lemonldap-ng/nginx-lmlog.conf" should get the content in
the right place once.


With a working config file, "nginx -T" can help -- perhaps with "|
grep include" or "| grep '^# con'" -- to see what file are read.

Without a working config file, something like "grep include nginx.conf"
can show the first set of extra files that will be read. Duplicates
there are probably bad.

Good luck with it,

	f
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Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org