Nginx for Debian/FreeBSD Ansible role

Install and configure Nginx on Debian/FreeBSD.

Features:

• SSL/TLS "hardened" support
• Manage basic auth on site / location
• Proxy + Upstream
• Fast PHP configuration
• Preconfigured site templates (should work on many app)
• Auto-configure HTTP2 on SSL/TLS sites
• Manage dynamic modules (install and loading)
• Deploy custom facts.d with sites config
• Can listen with proxy protocol
• Generate certificates with acme.sh (let's encrypt) -- EXPERIMENTAL

Supported OS:

OS	Working	Stable (active support)
Debian Jessie (8)	Yes	Check latest supported version (1.5.0)
Debian Stretch (9)	Yes	Yes
FreeBSD 11	Yes	No
FreeBSD 12	Yes	No

Requirements

Ansible 2.6+. If you set true to nginx_backports, you must install backports repository before lauching this role.

Role Variables

Packaging

Debian:

• nginx_apt_package: APT nginx package (try: apt-cache search ^nginx)
• nginx_backports: Install nginx from backport repository (bool)

FreeBSD:

• nginx_pkgng_package: PKGNG nginx package (should be "nginx" or "nginx-devel")

Shared

• nginx_root: root directory where you want to have your files
• nginx_log_dir: log directory (if you change it, don't forget to change logrotate config)
• nginx_resolver: list of DNS resolver (default: OpenDNS)
• nginx_error_log_level: default log level
• nginx_auto_config_httpv2: boolean, auto configure HTTP2 where possible
• nginx_fastcgi_fix_realpath: boolean, use realpath for fastcgi (fix problems with symlinks and PHP opcache)

Nginx Configuration

• nginx_user
• nginx_worker_processes
• nginx_pid: daemon pid file
• nginx_events_*: all variables in events block
• nginx_http_*: all variables in http block
• nginx_custom_http: instructions list (will put data in /etc/nginx/conf.d/custom.conf)
• nginx_module_packages: package list module to install (Debian)
• nginx_load_modules: module list to load (full path), should be used only on FreeBSD

Misc

• nginx_debug_role: set true if you need to see output of no_log tasks

About modules

Last updates from Debian backports loads modules from /etc/nginx/modules-enabled directory. Disabling/Enabling is not supported anymore. Please wait further update.

Fine configuration

Site configuration

PHP configuration

Upstream Configuration

SSL/TLS Configuration

Basic Auth

FreeBSD

acme.sh

Note

• Active support for Debian.
• FreeBSD support is experimental (no Travis). I only test (for the moment) 10.2 (but it can work on other versions).
• I don't manage BackupPC for FreeBSD (PR welcome).

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

See tests/test.yml.

License

GPLv2

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Author Information

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