In most places in NixOS defining an option multiple places just merges the result together. This is particularly useful if you have two modules that both need an option, you don't want to have problems when they both set it. This makes the nginx `additionalModules` option follow this pattern.
Currently, this is using a "URI prefix match", but per nginx docs,
```
[...] the location with the longest matching prefix is selected and remembered. Then regular expressions are checked, in the order of their appearance in the configuration file. The search of regular expressions terminates on the first match, and the corresponding configuration is used. If no match with a regular expression is found then the configuration of the prefix location remembered earlier is used.
```
which means a config like this (from wordpress service) will override that
```
locations = {
"~ /\\." = {
priority = 800;
extraConfig = "deny all;";
};
};
```
😱
Luckily, from nginx docs:
```
If the longest matching prefix location has the “^~” modifier then regular expressions are not checked.
```
Whew!
conversions were done using https://github.com/pennae/nix-doc-munge
using (probably) rev f34e145 running
nix-doc-munge nixos/**/*.nix
nix-doc-munge --import nixos/**/*.nix
the tool ensures that only changes that could affect the generated
manual *but don't* are committed, other changes require manual review
and are discarded.
mostly no rendering changes. some lists (like simplelist) don't have an
exact translation to markdown, so we use a comma-separated list of
literals instead.
using regular strings works well for docbook because docbook is not as
whitespace-sensitive as markdown. markdown would render all of these as
code blocks when given the chance.
a lot of markdown syntax has already snuck into option docs, many of it
predating the intent to migrate to markdown. we don't convert all of it
here, just that which is accompanied by docbook tags as well. the rest
can be converted by simply adding the mdDoc marker.
make (almost) all links appear on only a single line, with no
unnecessary whitespace, using double quotes for attributes. this lets us
automatically convert them to markdown easily.
the few remaining links are extremely long link in a gnome module, we'll
come back to those at a later date.
the conversion procedure is simple:
- find all things that look like options, ie calls to either `mkOption`
or `lib.mkOption` that take an attrset. remember the attrset as the
option
- for all options, find a `description` attribute who's value is not a
call to `mdDoc` or `lib.mdDoc`
- textually convert the entire value of the attribute to MD with a few
simple regexes (the set from mdize-module.sh)
- if the change produced a change in the manual output, discard
- if the change kept the manual unchanged, add some text to the
description to make sure we've actually found an option. if the
manual changes this time, keep the converted description
this procedure converts 80% of nixos options to markdown. around 2000
options remain to be inspected, but most of those fail the "does not
change the manual output check": currently the MD conversion process
does not faithfully convert docbook tags like <code> and <package>, so
any option using such tags will not be converted at all.
When using the example without the square brackets, nginx fails to start:
```
nginx-pre-start: nginx: [emerg] invalid port in "::1:80" of the "listen" directive in /nix/store/xyz-nginx.conf:29
nginx-pre-start: nginx: configuration file /nix/store/xyz-nginx.conf test failed
```
using freeform is the new standard way of using modules and should replace
extraConfig.
In particular, this will allow us to place a condition on mails
Allows configuring many default settings for certificates,
all of which can still be overridden on a per-cert basis.
Some options have been moved into .defaults from security.acme,
namely email, server, validMinDays and renewInterval. These
changes will not break existing configurations thanks to
mkChangedOptionModule.
With this, it is also now possible to configure DNS-01 with
web servers whose virtualHosts utilise enableACME. The only
requirement is you set `acmeRoot = null` for each vhost.
The test suite has been revamped to cover these additions
and also to generally make it easier to maintain. Test config
for apache and nginx has been fully standardised, and it
is now much easier to add a new web server if it follows
the same configuration patterns as those two. I have also
optimised the use of switch-to-configuration which should
speed up testing.
