Ansible Role: PHP

Installs PHP on RedHat/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu servers.

Requirements

Must be running a separate web server, such as Nginx or Apache.

Role Variables

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

php_memory_limit: "256M"
php_max_execution_time: "60"
php_upload_max_filesize: "64M"

Some commonly-adjusted PHP ini directives. Adjust to suit your system.

php_enable_apc: true

Whether to enable APC. Other APC variables will be ineffective if this is set to false.

php_apc_enabled_in_ini: false

When installing APC, depending on the system and whether running PHP as a webserver module or standalone via php-fpm, you might need the line extension=apc.so in apc.ini. If you need that line added, set this variable to true.

php_apc_cache_by_default: "1"
php_apc_shm_size: "96M"

Two APC ini directives that are often customized on a system. Set php_apc_cache_by_default to 0 to disable APC by default (so you could enable it on a host-by-host basis). Set the php_apc_shm_size so it will hold all your application code in memory with a little overhead (fragmentation or APC running out of memory will slow down PHP dramatically).

This Ansible role assumes you're including php-pecl-apc in the list of php_packages below. It's rarely a good idea to run a PHP < 5.5 installation without some kind of opcode cache, and APC works great for PHP 5.3 and 5.4.

php_date_timezone: "America/Chicago"

Explicitly set PHP's date timezone system-wide.

php_sendmail_path: "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i"

The path to use for sendmail or a sendmail wrapper/replacement. You can also add options to this line if you need to set sendmail to use an explicit name/email for the sender.

php_short_open_tag: false

Whether to allow short open tags.

php_packages: []

A list of the PHP packages to install (OS-specific by default). You'll likely want to install common packages like php, php-cli, php-devel and php-pdo, and you can add in whatever other packages you'd like (for example, php-gd for image manipulation, or php-ldap if you need to connect to an LDAP server for authentication).

php_enable_webserver: true

If your usage of PHP is tied to a web server (e.g. Apache or Nginx), leave this default value. If you are using PHP server-side or to run some small application, set this value to false so this role doesn't attempt to interact with a web server.

php_webserver_daemon: "httpd"

The default values for the HTTP server deamon are httpd (used by Apache) for RedHat/CentOS, or apache2 (also used by Apache) for Debian/Ubuntu. If you are running another webserver (for example, nginx), change this value to the name of the daemon under which the webserver runs.

php_enable_php_fpm: false

If you add php-fpm to the php_packages list, and would like to run PHP-fpm, as you would with Nginx or as an alternative to mod_php in Apache, you can set this variable to true, and the php-fpm daemon will be enabled and started. You will need to configure PHP-fpm on your own, by editing the config file in /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf (for RedHat servers) or replacing it with your own template via Ansible.

php_error_reporting: "E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT"
php_display_errors: "Off"

Error reporting settings. Defaults to not display any errors (a safe default for production), but should set php_display_errors to "On" so you can see all errors when developing or testing.

php_enablerepo: ""

(RedHat/CentOS only) If you have enabled any additional repositories (might I suggest geerlingguy.repo-epel or geerlingguy.repo-remi), those repositories can be listed under this variable (e.g. remi,epel). This can be handy, as an example, if you want to install the latest version of PHP 5.4, which is in the Remi repository.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: webservers
  vars_files:
    - vars/main.yml
  roles:
    - { role: geerlingguy.php }

Inside vars/main.yml:

php_memory_limit: "128M"
php_max_execution_time: "90"
php_upload_max_filesize: "256M"
php_packages:
  - php
  - php-cli
  - php-common
  - php-devel
  - php-gd
  - php-mbstring
  - php-pdo
  - php-pecl-apc
  - php-xml
  ...

TODO

• Make role more flexible, allowing APC to be excluded from php_packages list.
• Use lineinfile rather than templates to make configuration changes.

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.