nginx access.log configuration not taking

[andy-v-h]

Cookbook version

5.0.1

Chef-client version

12.17.44

Platform Details

CentOS release 6.9 (Final)

Last login: Thu Nov  2 22:11:29 2017 from 10.0.2.2
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Chef-Client: vagrant.vagrantup.com
Hostname: vagrant.vagrantup.com
Environment: _default
Chef Server: chefzero://localhost:8889
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Roles: No Roles Defined
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Run_List: recipe[myorg_ohai], recipe[myorg_vagrant_base_box]
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[vagrant@default-centos-6-chef-12-kitchen ~]$ cat /etc/centos-release 
CentOS release 6.9 (Final)
[vagrant@default-centos-6-chef-12-kitchen ~]$

Scenario:

I want to configure the embedded nginx server to publish access.log in a way that makes sense to splunk

Steps to Reproduce:

Added the nginx configuration to the attributes/defaults.rb

diff --git a/attributes/default.rb b/attributes/default.rb
index ca3598a..717f899 100644
--- a/attributes/default.rb
+++ b/attributes/default.rb
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ default['chef-server']['configuration'] = <<-EOS
 default_orgname "myorg"
 addons['install'] = false
 opscode_expander['nodes'] = 4
+nginx['access_log_options'] = 'splunk';
+nginx['log_formats'] = {
+  'splunk' => 'site="$server_name" server="$host” dest_port="$server_port" dest_ip="$server_addr" src="$remote_addr" src_ip="0.0.00"   user="$remote_user" time_local="$time_local" protocol="$server_protocol" status="$status" bytes_out="$bytes_sent" bytes_in="0" http_referer="$http_referer" http_user_agent="$http_user_agent" nginx_version="$nginx_version" http_x_forwarded_for="$http_x_forwarded_for" http_x_header="$http_x_header" uri_query="$query_string" uri_path="$uri" http_method="$request_method" response_time="$upstream_response_time" cookie="$http_cookie" request_time="$request_time" ', 
+  'main' => '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" $status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" "$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"'
+}
 nginx['ssl_certificate_key'] = '/var/opt/opscode/nginx/ca/wildcard.myorg.net.key'
 nginx['ssl_certificate'] = '/var/opt/opscode/nginx/ca/wildcard.myorg.net.pem'
 opscode_erchef['db_pool_size'] = 40

Expected Result:

the access.log would use the new splunk logging type.

Actual Result:

I can see that the configs make it to the runlist json but don't get written out to the /var/opt/opscode/nginx/etc directory for the embedded nginx server to use

[root@default-centos-6-chef-12-kitchen chef]# grep -r 'splunk'  /var/opt/opscode/nginx/etc/nginx.conf
[root@default-centos-6-chef-12-kitchen chef]#