Alllow service to be disabled

README.md

@@ -100,6 +100,10 @@ The list of packages to be installed. This defaults to a set of platform-specifi
 
 Set initial Apache daemon state to be enforced when this role is run. This should generally remain `started`, but you can set it to `stopped` if you need to fix the Apache config during a playbook run or otherwise would not like Apache started at the time this role is run.
 
+    apache_enabled: yes
+
+Set the Apache service boot time status. This should generally remain `yes`, but you can set it to `no` if you need to run Ansible while leaving the service disabled.
+
     apache_packages_state: present
 
 If you have enabled any additional repositories such as _ondrej/apache2_, [geerlingguy.repo-epel](https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-repo-epel), or [geerlingguy.repo-remi](https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-repo-remi), you may want an easy way to upgrade versions. You can set this to `latest` (combined with `apache_enablerepo` on RHEL) and can directly upgrade to a different Apache version from a different repo (instead of uninstalling and reinstalling Apache).

defaults/main.yml

@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ apache_mods_disabled: []
 # Set initial apache state. Recommended values: `started` or `stopped`
 apache_state: started
 
+# Set initial apache service status. Recommended values: `yes` or `no`
+apache_enabled: yes
+
 # Set apache state when configuration changes are made. Recommended values:
 # `restarted` or `reloaded`
 apache_restart_state: restarted

tasks/main.yml

@@ -44,4 +44,4 @@
   service:
     name: "{{ apache_service }}"
     state: "{{ apache_state }}"
-    enabled: true
+    enabled: "{{ apache_enabled }}"