AWS Elastic Beanstalk not running my nginx.config

I have researched and read through all their documentation and still can not find out why this is not working. So I want to just simply override the 00_elastic_beanstalk_proxy.conf file to my own nginx config. Here is what I have.

inside my app root folder I have .ebextensions/nginx.config

    files:
  "/tmp/deployment/config/#etc#nginx#conf.d#00_elastic_beanstalk_proxy.conf":
    mode: "000755"
    owner: root
    group: root
    content: |
        map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
                default upgrade;
                '' close;
            }
        upstream nodejs {
           server 127.0.0.1:8081;
           keepalive 256;
        }

        server {
         listen 8080;

        location / {
            proxy_pass  http://nodejs;
            proxy_set_header   Connection "";
            proxy_http_version 1.1;
            proxy_set_header        Host            $host;
            proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP  $remote_addr;
            proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
            proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
            proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
            alias /var/app/currentclient/dist;
        }
        gzip on;

        }

I added, committed and pushed the file. Then I ran a 'eb deploy' which it deployed successfully minus not running my nginx.config. Unless it actually is running it and I can not find it in any of the logs.

Am I missing something or what do I need to do to solve my end task? I simply just want to have my own nginx.config.