Elastic Beanstalk change environment variables wipes out WSGIPassAuthorization

Question

I have a custom file in .ebextensions:

container_commands:
    02_wsgipass:
        command: 'echo "WSGIPassAuthorization On" >> ../wsgi.conf'   

When I change the environment variables through the Elastic Beanstalk UI, it wipes out the WSGIPassAuthorization and I need to re-deploy the code.

Any way to correct that?

Answer 1

Currently when you deploy a new config, your eb-extensions do not run. You'll need to move your option settings into eb-extensions and then do new application deploys to ensure that your customizations always take hold. More details on how to pass option settings in eb-extensions can be found here - 

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/environment-resources.html