Increasing worker_connections of nginx on Beanstalk nodejs environment

Question

I am trying to increase the number of possible worker_connections of my nginx on my Beanstalk nodejs server (Amazon Linux 2).
I followed the documentation and created a file .platform/nginx/conf.d/proxy.conf with this content:

worker_rlimit_nofile 65536;
events {
  worker_connections  32768;
}

When deploying I get the error: [emerg] "worker_rlimit_nofile" directive is not allowed here in /var/proxy/staging/nginx/conf.d/proxy.conf

When commenting this line I still get: [emerg] "events" directive is not allowed here in /var/proxy/staging/nginx/conf.d/proxy.conf:3

Answer 1

I think these are top level settings, and you have to overwrite main nginx.conf file. You do this by creating .platform/nginx/nginx.conf config file. In that case, you can remove .platform/nginx/conf.d/proxy.conf.

You can try the following .platform/nginx/nginx.conf:

# For more information on configuration, see:
#   * Official English Documentation: http://nginx.org/en/docs/
#   * Official Russian Documentation: http://nginx.org/ru/docs/
user nginx;
worker_processes auto;
worker_rlimit_nofile 65536;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;                                      
pid /run/nginx.pid;
# Load dynamic modules. See /usr/share/doc/nginx/README.dynamic.         
include /usr/share/nginx/modules/*.conf;
events {
    worker_connections 32768;                                               
}
http {                                                                
    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;
    sendfile            on;
    tcp_nopush          on;
    tcp_nodelay         on;
    keepalive_timeout   65;
    types_hash_max_size 4096;

    include             /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type        application/octet-stream;

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
    server {
        listen       80;
        listen       [::]:80;
        server_name  _;
        root         /usr/share/nginx/html;
        # Load configuration files for the default server block.                   
        include /etc/nginx/default.d/*.conf;  
        error_page 404 /404.html;        
            location = /40x.html {       
        }
        error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;                                      
            location = /50x.html {       
        }
    }
}                                                                   

If this does not work, you can ssh into your EB instance, check what is the actual, default nginx.conf (/etc/nginx/nginx.conf) for your EB environment, copy it, and use in .platform/nginx/nginx.conf.