Hello,
I have actually found out that the problem is variable scoping. The
explanation has been given here :
http://serverfault.com/questions/300446/accessing-node-variable-in-class-and-using-it-in-a-conditionnal
Thank you for your help anyways :)
Antoine
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Scott Smith <sc...@ohlol.net> wrote:
> I experienced something similar to this. Try it without quoting the RHS.
> E.g
>
> if $smcvhost = belleville {
> }
>
> Also, what you are doing is code smell.
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Antoine Benkemoun <
> antoine.benkem...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> First of all, thank you for making the awesome piece of software that is
>> Puppet. I have working with it for a week and I'm really liking what I'm
>> seeing and I have been able to do quite a few tasks with ease. Currently, I
>> am trying to configure Apache Virtual Hosts with Puppet and have been trying
>> different things with little success.
>>
>> I have defined a node as the following :
>>
>> node 'test1.cob' inherits serveurClient {
>> $smcvhost = 'all'
>> }
>>
>> The serveurClient class includes the apache class. This works fine as
>> Apache gets installed and all the configuration gets applied correctly,
>> except the virtual hosts.
>>
>> The configuration relating to the virtual hosts is the following :
>>
>> class apache::config {
>> File{
>> require => Class["apache::install"],
>> notify => Class["apache::service"],
>> ensure => present,
>> owner => "www-data",
>> group => "www-data",
>> mode => 755
>> }
>> ...
>> if ( $smcvhost == 'belleville' ) or ( $smcvhost == 'all' ) {
>> apache::smcvhost{'belleville':
>> client => 'belleville',
>> }
>> }
>> ...
>> }
>>
>> The *apache::smcvhost* definition works correctly because if I specify it
>> directly in the node without the condition, the virtual host gets created
>> correctly with no errors. If I remove the if statement, it will also get
>> created correctly. I have tried only specifying the second condition but
>> that did not make it work.
>>
>> When this fails to be executed, I do not get any error. The puppet report
>> just ignores this configuration part.
>>
>> I am thinking that this is some sort of variable scoping problem but from
>> what I have read, this practice seems correct and I imagine puppet would
>> give me some error if I tried to evaluate a non-existing variable.
>>
>> Thank you in advance for your help,
>>
>> Antoine
>>
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