Ansible role apache

READ ME FIRST: Probably for the last 50 people or so which are still using Ansible I wholeheartedly recommend to use geerlingguy.apache role. Why? Because it's tested, maintained and covers a lot of, if not the most of, use cases.

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This is yet another ansible role for management of Apache's httpd. Inspiration for this role was and is puppetlabs-apache module. Another one is aforementioned Geerlingguy's ansible role geerlingguy.apache.

Since nobody is going to use this anyway(Ansible isn't used anymore and neither is httpd) I'm afraid that's it. Only supported OS at this moment is Debian. I might add support for some other OS, if and when I'm bored.

Features

• richer httpd and virtual host configuration(perhaps it's too much)
• generate ports.conf from virtual hosts
• allow to enable/disable config files
• allow to enable/disable modules

Known limitations

Ports

• if there are no virtual hosts, httpd should listen at port 80 and 443 as is by default in Debian.
• ports are generated ONLY from managed(defined) virtual hosts. It's possible to define additional Listen directives via apache_confs.

Virtual Hosts

Virtual host filename is assembled from priority, protocol and servername. If any of these change, new filename will be created and the old one will be left behind since unmanaged stuff is left alone. This is kind of suboptimal.

One way around this is either duplicate the whole virtual host configuration or create a minimal stub with identical combination of port, servername and ssl/no-ssl and state: absent. Then the former virtual host should get disabled and new one deployed.

Requirements

None.

Role variables

See defaults/main.yml. There is also specs/apache_vhost_argument_specs.yml which should give you some idea about configuration options and possibilities regarding virtual hosts.

Dependencies

There are no extra dependencies as far as Ansible goes.

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  vars:
    apache_vhosts:
      - servername: "local1.dev"
        port: 80
        docroot: "/var/www/html"
        rewrites:
          - rewrite_rule: ["^/.*$ https://localhost1 [R=302,L]"]

      - servername: "localhost1"
        serveradmin: "root@example.com"
        port: 443
        docroot: "/var/www/html"
        directories:
          - path: "/var/www/html"
            allowoverride: ["None"]
            directoryindex: "index.php"
            require: "all granted"
            addhandlers:
              - handler: "application/x-httpd-php"
                extensions:
                  - "\.php"

          - provider: "location"
            path: "/README"
            require: "all denied"
        ssl:
          - ssl_cert: "/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem"
            ssl_key: "/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key"
            ssl_cacerts_dir: "/etc/ssl/certs"

      - servername: "local2.dev"
        state: absent
        listen_ip: "127.0.0.1"
        port: 8080
        docroot: "/var/www/html"
        error_log_format24:
          - format: "[%{uc}t] [%-m:%-l] [R:%L] [C:%{C}L] %7F: %E: %M"
          - flag: request
            format: "[%{uc}t] [R:%L] Request %k on C:%{c}L pid:%P tid:%T"

    apache_mods:
      - name: rewrite
        state: present
      - name: ssl
        conf_content: |
          SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3 -TLSv1

    apache_confs:
      - name: serve-cgi-bin
        state: absent
      - name: my_config
        conf_content: |
          TraceEnable On
  roles:
     - role: zstyblik.apache

License

MIT