Phansible Role: Apache

An Ansible Role that installs Apache from the distribution packages with a default virtual host and common modules enabled, specifically created with Phansible in mind.

Requirements

• Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 26.04 or Debian 12, 13
• Ansible 2.15 or newer, with the community.general collection (shipped with the ansible package)

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

apache:
    docroot: "/vagrant"
    servername: "myApp.vb"

• apache.docroot: document root of the default virtual host, with AllowOverride All.
• apache.servername: ServerName of the default virtual host.

The role also enables rewrite, vhost_alias, headers, expires and filter, and sets ServerSignature Off and ServerTokens Prod.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  become: yes
  vars:
    apache:
      docroot: /var/www/app/public
      servername: app.test
  roles:
    - role-apache

License

This role is released under the terms of the license specified in the repository or if not specified, under the MIT license.

Author Information

This role was created in 2015 by The Phansible Team & Contributors, credits go also to Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps and source of inspiration.