Ansible Role: Apache 2.x

An Ansible Role that installs Apache 2.x on RHEL/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

apache_enablerepo: ""

The repository to use when installing Apache (only used on RHEL/CentOS systems). If you'd like later versions of Apache than are available in the OS's core repositories, use a repository like EPEL (which can be installed with the geerlingguy.repo-epel role).

apache_listen_ports: [ 80 ]

The ports on which apache should be listening (as a list). Useful if you have another service (like a reverse proxy) listening on port 80, or apply ssl at a load balancer on a supplemental port.

apache_create_vhosts: true

If set to true, a vhosts file, managed by this role's variables (see below), will be created and placed in the Apache configuration folder. If set to false, you can place your own vhosts file into Apache's configuration folder and skip the convenient (but more basic) one added by this role.

apache_vhosts:
  # Additional optional properties: 'serveradmin, extra_parameters'.
  - {servername: "local.dev", documentroot: "/var/www/html"}

Add a set of properties per virtualhost, including servername (required), documentroot (required), serveradmin (optional: the admin email address for this server), and extra_parameters (you can add whatever you'd like in here).

Note that this role doesn't configure SSL support out of the box; you would need to add in additional tasks to listen on port 443 and add your own VirtualHost directives for SSL. This may be improved in the future :)

apache_mods_enabled:
  - rewrite.load

(Debian/Ubuntu ONLY) Which Apache mods to enable (these will be symlinked into the apporopriate location). See the mods-available directory inside the apache configuration directory (/etc/apache2/mods-available by default) for all the available mods.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: webservers
  vars_files:
    - vars/main.yml
  roles:
    - { role: geerlingguy.apache }

Inside vars/main.yml:

apache_listen_ports: [ 80, 8080 ]
apache_vhosts:
  - {servername: "example.com", documentroot: "/var/www/vhosts/example_com"}

On Debian/Ubuntu hosts, if you get the error Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?, You should add a task to make sure your apt_cache is up to date, like:

- name: Update apt cache if needed.
  apt: update_cache=yes cache_valid_time=3600

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.