AWS ElasticBeanstalk Amazon Linux 2 .platform folder not copying NGINX conf

Question

I've been moving over to ElasticBeanstalk using Amazon Linux 2 and I'm having a problem overwriting the default nginx.conf file. I'm following the AL2 docs for the reverse proxy.

They say, "To override the Elastic Beanstalk default nginx configuration completely, include a configuration in your source bundle at .platform/nginx/nginx.conf:"

My apps folder structure

When I run my deploy though, I get the error

CommandService Response: {"status":"FAILURE","api_version":"1.0","results":[{"status":"FAILURE","msg":"Engine execution has encountered an error.","returncode":1,"events":[{"msg":"Instance deployment: Elastic Beanstalk ignored your '.ebextensions/nginx' configuration directory. To include these configuration files, move them to '.platform/nginx'.","timestamp":1598554657,"severity":"WARN"},{"msg":"Instance deployment failed. For details, see 'eb-engine.log'.","timestamp":1598554682,"severity":"ERROR"}]}]}

The main part of the error is

"Elastic Beanstalk ignored your '.ebextensions/nginx' configuration directory. To include these configuration files, move them to '.platform/nginx'.""

Which I'm confused about because this is where I've put the file/folder.

I've tried completely removing the .ebextensions folder and got the same error.

I've tried starting from a completely fresh beanstalk environment and still got that error. I'm not understanding how beanstalk is managing this.

Answer 1

Based on the comments.

The issue was caused by duplicate locations of the nginx config file. This was due to deleting the nginx default path in .ebextensions, while EB re-creating it.

Since this seems as a bug, AWS support ticked was created.