Role Name

A role that installs and configures the apache web server http://httpd.apache.org

Role Variables

The most important variables are listed below:

apache_service_enabled: True
apache_user: www-data
apache_pkg_state: latest
apache_group: '{{ apache_user }}'
apache_from_ppa: False
apache_ppa_repo: 'ppa:ondrej/apache2'

apache_listen_ports:
  - 80
  - '{{ apache_ssl_port }}'

# Possible choices: event, prefork (the old ones), worker (the threaded version), itm
apache_mpm_mode: worker

apache_packages:
  - apache2
  - apache2-utils
  - libapache2-mod-xsendfile
  - unzip
  - zip

apache_modules_packages:
  - 'apache2-mpm-{{ apache_mpm_mode }}'

# Only one can be present at the same time. It needs to be listed as the last one
apache_worker_modules:
#  - { name: 'mpm_itm', state: 'absent' }
  - { name: 'mpm_event', state: 'absent' }
  - { name: 'mpm_prefork', state: 'absent' }
  - { name: 'mpm_{{ apache_mpm_mode }}', state: 'present' }

# apache RPAF is needed to obtain the real client addresses when behind a reverse proxy
apache_rpaf_install: False

apache_default_modules:
  - headers
  - rewrite
  - expires
  - xsendfile

apache_ssl_modules_enabled: True
apache_ssl_port: 443
apache_ssl_modules:
  - ssl
  - socache_shmcb
apache_http_proxy_modules_enabled: False
apache_http_proxy_modules:
  - proxy
  - proxy_ajp
  - proxy_http

apache_status_module: True  
apache_status_location: '/server-status'
apache_status_allowed_hosts:
  - 127.0.0.1/8

apache_info_module: True
apache_info_location: '/server-info'
apache_info_allowed_hosts:
  - 127.0.0.1/8

apache_basic_auth: False
apache_basic_auth_single_file: True
apache_basic_auth_dir: /etc/apache2/auth
apache_basic_auth_file: '{{ apache_basic_auth_dir }}/htpasswd'

apache_basic_auth_modules:
  - auth_basic
  - authn_file
  - authz_user

# Put them in a vault file. auth_file is optional. Not used when apache_basic_auth_single_file is true
apache_basic_users:
  - { username:'', password:'', state:'present,absent', auth_file:'path_to_file' }

#
apache_additional_packages: False
apache_additional_packages_list:
#   - libapache2-mod-uwsgi
#   - ...
#
# Set this variable to load the modules you need
apache_additional_modules: False
apache_additional_modules_list: []
#  -
#  -

apache_letsencrypt_managed: True
apache_letsencrypt_proxy_modules:
  - proxy
  - proxy_http

apache_letsencrypt_proxy_conf:
  - letsencrypt-proxy.conf

Dependencies

None

License

EUPL-1.2

Author Information

Andrea Dell’Amico, andrea.dellamico@isti.cnr.it