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	Check latest supported version (1.9.0)
Debian Buster (10)	Yes	Yes
Debian Bullseye (11)	Yes	Yes
Debian Bookworm (12)	Yes	Not yet :)
FreeBSD 11	NA	No
FreeBSD 12	NA	No
Ubuntu 20.04	Yes	Yes
Ubuntu 22.04	Yes	Yes

Requirements

• Ansible >=2.11
• 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_default_hsts: string, default header sent for HSTS

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_core: instructions list (for core, will put data in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf)
• 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/Ubuntu.
• FreeBSD support is experimental. I only test (for the moment) 10.2 (but it can work on other versions).

Dependencies

See: requirements.yml.

If you need to dev this role locally on Vagrant

Before use vagrant, run once:

ansible-galaxy install -p ./tests/ HanXHX.php,master

If you need to dev this role locally with molecule

Check available scenarios in molecule directory.

With debian-12 scenario:

molecule -v -c molecule/_shared/base.yml verify -s debian-12

Example Playbook

See tests/test.yml.

License

GPLv2

Donation

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Author Information

• Twitter: @hanxhx_