PHP Role for Ansible

Manages PHP and FPM.

Operating System	PHP 5.3	PHP 5.4	PHP 5.5
Debian 6 (Squeeze)	Yes	Yes
Debian 7 (Wheezy)		Yes	Yes
Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr)			Yes

Requirements

• Ansible 1.5 or greater

Role variables

See defaults/main.yml for variables available to overwrite, the most usefull ones are listed below:

Variable name	Value Type	Default Value	Description
hwr_options.install_composer	boolean	yes	Installs Composer globally
hwr_options.php_version	float	null	Install a different PHP version on the system from the one provided by the distro.
hwr_options.remove_unmanaged_extension_configuration	boolean	no	Remove unmanaged extension configuration files.
php_ini	list	Default, development values	List of php.ini to use on environment
php_ini_files	list	[]	List of php.ini files to apply changes to. (CLI and FPM not needed to appear in this list)
php_packages	list	Platform dependent	List of packages to be installed, see vars/Debian.yml for an example.
php_pecl_packages	list	[]	List of pecl packages to install.
php_packages_extra	list	[]	List of OS packages to install (Utility configuration).
hwr_options.enable_fpm	boolean	yes	Enable creation and installation of PHP-FPM, as well as creation of FPM pools defined in another variable.
hwr_fpm_pools	list	Pool with DocRoot to /var/www/default	List of FPM pools to be created and enabled
hwr_php_fpm_default_chdir	string	/var/www/default	Default document root for the default PHP FPM pool
php_extensions_config	dict	empty	Set custom config for php modules, overrides all other module configuration.

PECL packages

You can install/compile a list of PECL packages using php_pecl_packages variables:

php_pecl_packages:
    - timezonedb

You still need to manage extension loading and configuration through php.ini. Be aware that some PECL packages depend on other libraries to be compiles, installation of these libraries should be handled by you using php_packages_extra configuration list.

Composer

Composer installation is enabled by default, making composer as command available to you. Packages can also be installed using hwr_composer_packages variable, like:

hwr_composer_packages:
    - "phpunit/phpunit:@stable"
    - "behat/behat:dev-master"

Although the packages are installed, you need to manage the PATH variable of your environment in order to have these commands available, adding $COMPOSER_HOME/vendor/bin directory to it.

A cron job is installed in order to daily update composer also.

Debian configuration

You can set up a different group of packages to be installed, as well as add different repositories to use as source for Debian. The following variables can be used:

• php_packages: A list of package names to be used by APT. If you want FPM support, php5-fpm must be in this list.
• hwr_apt_default_release: Release of debian to be used for package installation. (Ex: stable, backport, precise-stable, precise-backport)
• Key and repository management:
  • hwr_apt_keys: List of keys to be added to APT, each item must have the following attributes: url and state.
  • hwr_apt_repositories: List of repositories to be added to APT, each item must have the following attributes: repo and state

You can see an example of how to use it by taking a look on vars/Debian-squeeze.yml file.

Using PHP-FPM

You can disable (it is enabled by default) installation and creation of PHP-FPM pools setting hwr_options.enable_fpm to no.

By default, it will configure FPM and create a pool pointing to /var/wwww/default, which can be overwritten using hwr_php_fpm_default_chdir variable.

You can set up how many pools you want, or just define a different chdir for the default pool. More information on FPM configuration and its pools below.

FPM configuration

File php-fpm.conf configuration is exposed through variables below. Values below are all default values of the configuration file, you can change just the ones you want to really overwrite.

hwr_fpm_conf:
  pid: '/var/run/php5-fpm.pid'
  error_log: '/var/log/php5-fpm.log'
  log_level: 'notice'
  emergency_restart_threshold: 0
  emergency_restart_interval: 0
  process_control_timeout: 0
  daemonize: yes
  rlimit_files: 1024
  rlimit_core: 0
  events.mechanism: ** not set: autodetect **
  include: '/etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/*.conf'

The path to the configuration file is also configured though hwr_path_php_fpm_ini variable, which is already defined depending on your operating system.

FPM pools

All pools kept by this role are defined under hwr_fpm_pools variable. It is a list where each item is a different pool with all its configuration.

Each item (pool) can have any valid configuration of a FPM pool, the default values are show below:

hwr_fpm_pools:
    - name: default
      user: "{{ hwr_http_user }}"
      group: "{{ hwr_http_user_group }}"
      listen: 8000
      listen.allowed_clients: ""
      listen.backlog: 128
      listen.owner: "{{ hwr_http_user }}"
      listen.group: "{{ hwr_http_user_group }}"
      chdir: "/var/www/default"
      pm: dynamic
      pm.max_children: 10
      pm.start_servers: 2
      pm.min_spare_servers: 2
      pm.max_spare_servers: 5
      pm.process_idle_timeout: "10s"
      pm.max_requests: 0
      pm.status_path: "/status"
      access.log: "log/default.access.log"
      access.format: "%R - %u %t \"%m %r%Q%q\" %s %f %{mili}d %{kilo}M %C%%"

Variables hwr_http_user and hwr_http_user_group are defined on the OS variable file, and should be used on every pool you create.

php.ini configuration

You can manage php.ini configurations using php_ini variable. If you want to display errors, for example:

# roles/my-php-role/group_vars/all.yml

php_ini:
    - section: "PHP"
      option: "display_errors"
      value: "On"
    - section: "PHP"
      option: "error_reporting"
      value: "-1"

Configurations will always be applied to the CLI php.ini file. If php-fpm is enabled than its configuration will be changed too.

When you use a web server, you probably want to apply changes to another php.ini files, this can be done with php_ini_files directive. It would look like this:

# roles/my-php-role/group_vars/all.yml

php_ini_files:
    - /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
    - /etc/php5/nginx/php.ini

Module configuration

Variable	Required	Value Type	Parent Variable	Description
php_extensions_config	No	list		List of extension configurations.
file_name	Yes	string	php_extensions_config	Name of the configuration file (ini) to be used.
extension_path	Yes	string	php_extensions_config	Path of the extension to be loaded, used by extension configuration option.
	No	string	php_extensions_config	Will be added into ini.

Module configuration can be separated from php.ini, which is often the default for some OSes (Debian family). You can use php_extensions_config variable to manage these configurations.

These variable should contain a lis of dicts, if we want to manage [APC][] configuration for example:

# roles/my-php-role/group_vars/all.yml

php_extensions_config:
    - file_name: apc.ini
      extension_path: apc.so
      apc.enable: 1
      apc.cache_by_default: 0
      apc.enable_cli: 1
      apc.write_lock: 0

By default, unmanaged extension configuration (and loading) will not be modified, you can use hwr_options.remove_unmanaged_extension_configuration to enable removing unmanaged extension configuration.

Example playbook

---
- hosts: all
  vars:
    hwr_php_fpm_default_chwdir: "/var/www"
    hwr_options.enable_fpm: yes
    php_ini:
      - section: "PHP"
        option: "display_errors"
        value: "On"
      - section: "PHP"
        option: "error_reporting"
        value: -1
      - section: "Date"
        option: "date.timezone"
        value: "America/Sao_Paulo"
    php_packages_extra:
        - mongodb
    php_pecl_packages:
        - mongo
        - timezonedb
    php_extensions_config:
      - filename: apc.ini
        extension_path: apc.so
        apc.cache_by_default: 0
        apc.enable_cli: 1
  roles:
    - { role: augustohp.php }

License

MIT

Author Information

• Augusto Pascutti