Use Ansible to Install and Set Up LAMP on Ubuntu Server

 

 

How to Use Ansible to Install and Set Up LAMP on Ubuntu 22.04

 

---
- hosts: lamp_servers
  become: true
  vars_files:
    - vars/default.yml

  tasks:
    - name: Install prerequisites
      apt: name={{ item }} update_cache=yes state=latest force_apt_get=yes
      loop: [ 'aptitude' ]

  #Apache Configuration
    - name: Install LAMP Packages
      apt: name={{ item }} update_cache=yes state=latest
      loop: [ 'apache2', 'mysql-server', 'python3-pymysql', 'php', 'php-mysql', 'libapache2-mod-php' ]

    - name: Create document root
      file:
        path: "/var/www/{{ http_host }}"
        state: directory
        owner: "{{ app_user }}"
        mode: '0755'

    - name: Set up Apache virtualhost
      template:
        src: "files/apache.conf.j2"
        dest: "/etc/apache2/sites-available/{{ http_conf }}"
      notify: Reload Apache

    - name: Enable new site
      shell: /usr/sbin/a2ensite {{ http_conf }}
      notify: Reload Apache

    - name: Disable default Apache site
      shell: /usr/sbin/a2dissite 000-default.conf
      when: disable_default
      notify: Reload Apache

  # MySQL Configuration
    - name: Sets the root password
      mysql_user:
        name: root
        password: "{{ mysql_root_password }}"
        login_unix_socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

    - name: Removes all anonymous user accounts
      mysql_user:
        name: ''
        host_all: yes
        state: absent
        login_user: root
        login_password: "{{ mysql_root_password }}"

    - name: Removes the MySQL test database
      mysql_db:
        name: test
        state: absent
        login_user: root
        login_password: "{{ mysql_root_password }}"

  # UFW Configuration
    - name: "UFW - Allow HTTP on port {{ http_port }}"
      ufw:
        rule: allow
        port: "{{ http_port }}"
        proto: tcp

  # PHP Info Page
    - name: Sets Up PHP Info Page
      template:
        src: "files/info.php.j2"
        dest: "/var/www/{{ http_host }}/info.php"

  handlers:
    - name: Reload Apache
      service:
        name: apache2
        state: reloaded

    - name: Restart Apache
      service:
        name: apache2
        state: restarted

 

vars/default.yml

 ---
mysql_root_password: "mysql_root_password"
app_user: "sammy"
http_host: "your_domain"
http_conf: "your_domain.conf"
http_port: "80"
disable_default: true

 

files/apache.conf.j2

<VirtualHost *:{{ http_port }}>
   ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
   ServerName {{ http_host }}
   ServerAlias www.{{ http_host }}
   DocumentRoot /var/www/{{ http_host }}
   ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
   CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

   <Directory /var/www/{{ http_host }}>
         Options -Indexes
   </Directory>

   <IfModule mod_dir.c>
       DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.cgi index.pl  index.xhtml index.htm
   </IfModule>

</VirtualHost>

 

files/info.php.j2

<?php
phpinfo();