File attributes inside template

[Trunet]

Hi,

I would like to know if I can use a File attribute inside a template. Is it possible?

Example:

A class with:

file { "/ssl/certificate.crt":

        source => "puppet:///modules/apache/certificate.crt",

        owner => root,

        group => apache,

        mode => 440,

        require => Class["apache::install"],

}

file { "/conf/apache/apache-system1.conf":

         ensure => present,

         content => template("apache/apache-system1.conf.erb"),

         require => [Class["apache::install"], File["/ssl/certificate.crt"]],

         notify => Class["apache::service::system1"],

}

On my template I want to have a line like this:

SSLCertificateFile /ssl/certificate.crt

using puppet file attribute directly(like this below that does not work obviously):

SSLCertificateFile <%= File["/ssl/certificate.cfg"].name %>

Thanks,

Wagner Sartori Junior

[Nick Fagerlund]

On Thursday, June 14, 2012 12:43:48 PM UTC-7, Trunet wrote:

Hi,

I would like to know if I can use a File attribute inside a template. Is it possible?

No, you can't query resource attributes like that.

Instead, you should extract the string into a variable, then use the same variable in both places.

$certificate_path = '/ssl/certificate.cfg'

file {$certificate_path:
  ...
}

(Then, in the template:)
SSLCertificateFile <%= @certificate_path %>