community.general.apache2_module – Enables/disables a module of the Apache2 webserver.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.apache2_module.

Synopsis

  • Enables or disables a specified module of the Apache2 webserver.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • a2enmod
  • a2dismod

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
force
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Force disabling of default modules and override Debian warnings.
identifier
string
Identifier of the module as listed by apache2ctl -M. This is optional and usually determined automatically by the common convention of appending _module to name as well as custom exception for popular modules.
ignore_configcheck
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Ignore configuration checks about inconsistent module configuration. Especially for mpm_* modules.
name
string / required
Name of the module to enable/disable as given to a2enmod/a2dismod.
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Desired state of the module.

Notes

Note

  • This does not work on RedHat-based distributions. It does work on Debian- and SuSE-based distributions. Whether it works on others depend on whether the a2enmod and a2dismod tools are available or not.

Examples

- name: Enable the Apache2 module wsgi
  community.general.apache2_module:
    state: present
    name: wsgi

- name: Disables the Apache2 module wsgi
  community.general.apache2_module:
    state: absent
    name: wsgi

- name: Disable default modules for Debian
  community.general.apache2_module:
    state: absent
    name: autoindex
    force: True

- name: Disable mpm_worker and ignore warnings about missing mpm module
  community.general.apache2_module:
    state: absent
    name: mpm_worker
    ignore_configcheck: True

- name: Enable dump_io module, which is identified as dumpio_module inside apache2
  community.general.apache2_module:
    state: present
    name: dump_io
    identifier: dumpio_module

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
rc
integer
failed
return code of underlying command
result
string
always
message about action taken
stderr
string
failed
stderr of underlying command
stdout
string
failed
stdout of underlying command
warnings
list / elements=string
when needed
list of warning messages


Authors

  • Christian Berendt (@berendt)
  • Ralf Hertel (@n0trax)
  • Robin Roth (@robinro)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
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