httpd

Install and configure httpd on your system.

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Example Playbook

This example is taken from molecule/resources/converge.yml and is tested on each push, pull request and release.

---
- name: Converge
  hosts: all
  become: yes
  gather_facts: yes

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.httpd
      httpd_port: 8080
      httpd_ssl_port: 8443
      httpd_locations:
        - name: mylocation1
          location: /mylocation1
          backend_url: "http://localhost:8080/myapplication"
      httpd_vhosts:
        - name: docroot
          servername: www1.example.com
          options:
            - "+Indexes"
            - "+FollowSymLinks"
            - "-MultiViews"
          documentroot: /var/www/html/www1.example.com
        - name: backend_http
          servername: www2.example.com
          backend_url: "http://www.example.com/"
        - name: remote
          servername: www3.example.com
          remote: "http://localhost:3128/"
        - name: backend_https
          servername: www4.example.com
          backend_url: "https://www.example.com/"
        - name: piratebay
          servername: piratebay.nl
          backend_url: "https://thepirate-bay.org/"
          proxy_preserve_host: Off
          proxy_requests: Off
          setenv:
            - name: force-proxy-request-1.0
              value: 1
            - name: proxy-nokeepalive
              value: 1
            - name: proxy-initial-not-pooled
            - name: proxy-sendchunks
              value: 1

The machine may need to be prepared using molecule/resources/prepare.yml:

---
- name: Prepare
  hosts: all
  gather_facts: no
  become: yes

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.bootstrap
    - role: robertdebock.epel
    - role: robertdebock.buildtools
    - role: robertdebock.python_pip
    - role: robertdebock.openssl
      openssl_items:
        - name: apache-httpd
          common_name: "{{ ansible_fqdn }}"

For verification molecule/resources/verify.yml run after the role has been applied.

---
- name: Verify
  hosts: all
  become: yes
  gather_facts: yes

  vars:
    _httpd_data_directory:
      default: /var/www/html
      Alpine: /var/www/localhost
      Suse: /srv/www/htdocs

    httpd_data_directory: "{{ _httpd_data_directory[ansible_os_family] | default(_httpd_data_directory['default']) }}"

  tasks:
    - name: check if ports are open
      wait_for:
        port: "{{ item }}"
        timeout: 2
      loop:
        - "8080"
        - "8443"

    - name: place sample index.html
      copy:
        content: "Hello World!"
        dest: "{{ httpd_data_directory }}/index.html"

    - name: see if the sample index.html returns 200
      uri:
        url: "https://127.0.0.1:8443/"
        validate_certs: no

    - name: see if TRACE option returns 405
      uri:
        url: "https://127.0.0.1:8443/"
        method: TRACE
        status_code:
          - 405
        validate_certs: no

Also see a full explanation and example on how to use these roles.

Role Variables

These variables are set in defaults/main.yml:

---
# defaults file for httpd

# The servername to use.
httpd_servername: "{{ ansible_fqdn }}"

# The non-SSL port to use.
httpd_port: 80

# To configure https, set the hostname to listen to.
httpd_ssl_servername: "{{ ansible_fqdn }}"

# For SSL a TCP port is required.
httpd_ssl_port: 443

# Set ProxyPreserveHost
httpd_proxy_preserve_host: On

Requirements

Access to a repository containing packages, likely on the internet.
A recent version of Ansible. (Tests run on the current, previous and next release of Ansible.)

The following roles can be installed to ensure all requirements are met, using ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml:

---
- robertdebock.bootstrap
- robertdebock.buildtools
- robertdebock.epel
- robertdebock.openssl
- robertdebock.python_pip
- robertdebock.selinux

Context

This role is a part of many compatible roles. Have a look at the documentation of these roles for further information.

Here is an overview of related roles:

Compatibility

This role has been tested on these container images:

container	tags
alpine	all
el	7, 8
debian	buster, bullseye
fedora	31, 32
opensuse	all
ubuntu	focal, bionic, xenial

The minimum version of Ansible required is 2.8 but tests have been done to:

The previous version, on version lower.
The current version.
The development version.

Exceptions

Some variarations of the build matrix do not work. These are the variations and reasons why the build won't work:

variation	reason
Alpine	ImportError: Error loading shared library /tmp/pip-build-env-23ZqyN/lib/python2.7/site-packages/_cffi_backend.so: Operation not permitted
amazonlinux	Dependency (python_pip) not available.

Testing

Unit tests are done on every commit, pull request, release and periodically.

If you find issues, please register them in GitHub

Testing is done using Tox and Molecule:

Tox tests multiple ansible versions. Molecule tests multiple distributions.

To test using the defaults (any installed ansible version, namespace: robertdebock, image: fedora, tag: latest):

molecule test

# Or select a specific image:
image=ubuntu molecule test
# Or select a specific image and a specific tag:
image="debian" tag="stable" tox

Or you can test multiple versions of Ansible, and select images: Tox allows multiple versions of Ansible to be tested. To run the default (namespace: robertdebock, image: fedora, tag: latest) tests:

tox

# To run CentOS (namespace: `robertdebock`, tag: `latest`)
image="centos" tox
# Or customize more:
image="debian" tag="stable" tox

License

Apache-2.0

Author Information

Robert de Bock

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