Installing Apache

The first task we are going to add is one that installs the basic Apache packages. In roles/apache/tasks/main.yml, add the following:

- name: install the apache packages
  yum:
    name: "{{ item }}"
    state: "installed"
  with_items: "{{ apache_packages }}"

As you may have already guessed, the defaults for apache_packages can be found in roles/apache/defaults/main.yml:

apache_packages:
  - "httpd24u"
  - "httpd24u-filesystem"
  - "httpd24u-tools"
  - "httpd24u-mod_ssl"
  - "openssl"
  - "openssl-libs"

This installs the latest Apache 2.4 package from IUS, along with some of the supporting tools we will need. Once installed, we will now need to configure Apache.