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I'm trying to restart nginx in my ansible playbook if I changed the configuration. The configuration copy is done via template.

- name: update nginx.conf
  template: src=../templates/nginx_global_conf.conf.j2 dest=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
  sudo: yes
  register: nginx_conf
- name: restart nginx if needed
  shell: service nginx restart
  when: nginx_conf.changed

Even if I'm getting: 

TASK: [webapp | update nginx.conf] ********************************************
changed: [IPADDRESS]

I ALWAYS get:

TASK: [webapp | restart nginx if needed] **************************************
skipping: [IPADDRESS]

Tried also instead of shell:

action: service name=nginx state=restarted enabled=yes

It is not the problem. The register that isn't signalling is...

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    Some recommendations. Always use nginx_conf | changed instead of nginx_conf.changed. And use an appropriate module whenever possible. Only use shell/command when there is no module for what you want to do. But that won't help here. Did you try to debug your registered value? - debug: var= nginx_conf. An alternative for the registered value would be to use a handler instead: docs.ansible.com/ansible/…
    – udondan
    Feb 16, 2016 at 15:50
  • You should run Ansible with -v switch to debug the issue. You should see the actual value of the variable in the run.
    – Henrik Pingel
    Feb 16, 2016 at 16:19
  • When running with -v I'm getting TASK: [webapp | update nginx.conf] ******************************************** changed: [192.168.10.135] => {"changed": true, "checksum": "a657b88cbe76abce4a2a409b177631427347f267", "dest": "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf", "gid": 0, "group": "root", "md5sum": "94f073a0116c76455540b73384a5b668", "mode": "0644", "owner": "root", "size": 1055, "src": "/home/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1455648101.98-37044083565097/source", "state": "file", "uid": 0} Don't see nginx_conf in there
    – Boaz
    Feb 16, 2016 at 18:42

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OK. Apparently I had the same nginx_conf in a different yml I included. Keeping the question here because there are quite some good tips. Thanks to all the helpers

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