PHP 7, Nginx & MySQL
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Our app is written in PHP... so... we should probably get that installed. Copy the
git block, paste it, and change it to php5-cli:
| - hosts: vb | |
| tasks: | |
| // ... lines 5 - 27 | |
| - name: Install PHP CLI | |
| become: true | |
| apt: | |
| name: php5-cli | |
| state: latest |
Run that playbook!
ansible-playbook ansible/playbook.yml -i ansible/hosts.ini
And yea... I know PHP 5 is ancient. But our Ubuntu distribution doesn't support version 7. But don't worry, we're going to upgrade to 7 in a minute by using a custom repository. It's going to be awesome - so stay with me.
While the playbook is running, change over to your terminal tab and make sure you're
still SSH'ed into the VM. Of course, if we try php -v right now... it doesn't
work. But as soon as Ansible finishes, try it again:
php -v
Yea! Version 5.5.9. Now, let's kill this ancient version of PHP and go to 7.
Using a Custom apt Repository
Here's the deal: if you research how to install PHP 7 on this version of Ubuntu,
you'll learn about a third-party repository called ppa:ondrej/php. If we can add
this to our apt sources - usually done by running a few commands - we'll be in
business.
And of course... there's a module for that! It's not apt, it's apt_repository.
It doesn't have any requirements, and the options look pretty easy - just set
repository to the one we want to use.
Let's do it! In the playbook, above the PHP task, add a new one: Add PHP 7 Personal
Package Archive repository. Use the apt_repository module and set repository to:
ppa:ondrej/php:
| - hosts: vb | |
| tasks: | |
| // ... lines 5 - 27 | |
| - name: Add PHP 7 PPA repository | |
| become: true | |
| apt_repository: | |
| repo: 'ppa:ondrej/php' | |
| - name: Install PHP CLI | |
| // ... lines 34 - 38 |
And now, we can install php7.1-cli:
| - hosts: vb | |
| tasks: | |
| // ... lines 5 - 32 | |
| - name: Install PHP CLI | |
| // ... line 34 | |
| apt: | |
| name: php7.1-cli | |
| // ... lines 37 - 38 |
Run it!
ansible-playbook ansible/playbook.yml -i ansible/hosts.ini
Love it... no errors, and 2 tasks changed. Over in the VM, try:
php -v
Oh, sweet PHP 7.1 goodness.
Install Nginx
We're on a role - so let's take care of installing a few more things, like Nginx!
Add the new task: Install Nginx web server. I'm putting this above the PHP install,
but it doesn't matter. Add the normal become: true, apt and install
nginx with state: latest:
| - hosts: vb | |
| tasks: | |
| // ... lines 5 - 27 | |
| - name: Install Nginx web server | |
| become: true | |
| apt: | |
| name: nginx | |
| state: latest | |
| - name: Add PHP 7 PPA repository | |
| // ... lines 35 - 44 |
Run it!
ansible-playbook ansible/playbook.yml -i ansible/hosts.ini
And by the way, in the real world... where you can't fast-forward through Ansible, running the playbook takes awhile. So, you might want to add multiple tasks before testing things.
Ok, worked again! In theory, Nginx is now installed and running! Switch over to the VM and try to hit our server:
curl localhost
Hey hey! We are rocking! Sure, we still need to add a lot of Nginx configuration, but it is running.
And we should be able to see this page from our host machine. Find your browser and
go to http://192.168.33.10. Hey again Nginx!
Now eventually, we're going to access the site via mootube.l from our host machine.
To handle that, head to your terminal on your main machine - so not the VM - and
edit your /etc/hosts file. Inside, anywhere, add 192.168.33.10 mootube.l. Save
that!
Back at the browser test it: http://mootube.l. Got it!
Install MySQL
Before we move on, let's check one more thing off our list: MySQL. Copy the Nginx
configuration to Install MySQL DB Server. Set it to the mysql-server package:
| - hosts: vb | |
| tasks: | |
| // ... lines 5 - 33 | |
| - name: Install MySQL DB server | |
| become: true | |
| apt: | |
| name: mysql-server | |
| state: latest | |
| - name: Add PHP 7 PPA repository | |
| // ... lines 41 - 50 |
Run Ansible again:
ansible-playbook ansible/playbook.yml -i ansible/hosts.ini
Now, in a bigger infrastructure, you might want to keep your database on a separate server, or host, in Ansible language.
As we've seen from our playbook, each play is for a specific host. And there's nothing stopping us from having one host for our web server, with Nginx and PHP, and another host for our database, where we install the MySQL server. But for our example, we'll keep them all together.
Ok! Now MySQL should be installed. Move to your VM terminal tab, and try to connect to the local server:
mysql -u root
And we are in! Type exit to get out.
We've got Nginx, MySQL and PHP installed. But, PHP isn't ready yet... we're missing
a bunch of PHP extension and our php.ini file needs some changes. Let's crush that!
Hi!
I'm installed mysql-server with a new root password by default.
I saw a trick:
It works, but in terminal when we run ansible always exists 2 tasks changed (Set MySQL root password before installing and Confirm MySQL root password before installing )
Do you know any way for set root password or do you know how I can skip me these 2 steps with a var and property when?
regards!