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 vars/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_port: 80

The port on which apache should be listening. Useful if you have another service (like a reverse proxy) listening on port 80.

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 :)

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

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

Inside vars/main.yml:

apache_listen_port: 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.