Dec 2, 20202 min read

Configuring Apache Web Server Using Ansible...

In this article, I am going to show you how to configure the HTTPD ( Apache webserver)

how to change the document root of HTTPD .. and Restarting HTTPD Service is not idempotence in nature so how to solve this challenge with the help of Ansible playbook.

Here is my ansible-playbook...


- hosts: 192.168.43.251
  vars:
            Port_No: "8080"
            dvd_dir: "/dvd1"
            doc_root: "/var/www/first"
  tasks:
  - name: "Create mount point dir for cdrom"
    file:
            state: directory
            path: "{{ dvd_dir }}"
  - name:
    mount:
            src: "/dev/cdrom"
            path: "{{dvd_dir}}"
            state: mounted
            fstype: "iso9660"
  - name: AppStream Repo
    yum_repository:
            name: AppStream
            description: AppStream Repo
            baseurl: "{{ dvd_dir }}/AppStream"
            gpgcheck: no
  - name:  BaseOS Repo
    yum_repository:
            name: "BaseOS"
            description: "BaseOS Repo"
            baseurl: "{{ dvd_dir }}/BaseOS"
            gpgcheck: no
  - name: Installing httpd
    package :
            name: httpd
            state: present
  - name: "Copying contents"
    copy:
            content: "TASK 11.3 SUCCESSFULY COMPLETED"
            dest: "{{ doc_root }}/index.html"
  - name: "Copying Configuration File"
    template:
            src: "/root/ansible/new.conf"
            dest: "/etc/httpd/conf.d/new.conf"
  - name: "Service Started"
    service :
            name: httpd
            state: restarted

  - name: "Firewall"
    firewalld:
            port: "{{ Port_No }}/tcp"
            state: enabled
            permanent: yes
            immediate: yes
  - name: "New Document Root Directory"
    file:
            state: directory
            path: "{{ doc_root }}"

Here is my configuration file (new.conf)

Implementation:-

Target Node:-

configuration file changed

document root changed

working on port no 8080

web file copied (index.html)

Here you can see that the apache web server is configured successfully. But the problem is, I want that the service will be restarted only if there is some change/update in the configuration of that service, if the configuration is not changed then I don't want to restart the service. So to solve this issue I am going to use handlers