Ansible Role: PHP

An Ansible role that installs PHP on Ubuntu or Fedora. The following versions of PHP are supported:

• PHP 5.6
• PHP 7.0
• PHP 7.1

For PHP versions other than the distribution's one on Fedora Remi's RPM repository is used. For the same on Ubuntu the PPA deb.sury.org will be installed.

If nginx is installed on the system an upstream with the name php-fpm will be configured.

Requirements

None

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values:

php_version: ~

php_timezone: UTC
php_debug: false
php_opcache_validate: false
php_redis: false
php_composer: true

php_fpm: true
php_fpm_socket: ~
php_fpm_user: ~
php_fpm_group: ~
php_fpm_acl_users: ~

php_fpm_pm: ~ # static, dynamic, ondemand
php_fpm_pm_max_children: ~
php_fpm_pm_start_servers: ~
php_fpm_pm_min_spare_servers: ~
php_fpm_pm_max_spare_servers: ~
php_fpm_pm_process_idle_timeout: ~

Version

The variable php_version defines the desired version of PHP to install. See above for supported versions. If this variable is not set or is set to an unsupported version, the default PHP version of the Linux distribution will be installed.

Timezone

This role supports setting the default timezone of PHP with the variable php_timezone.

Debug

If the variable php_debug is set to true, error reporting will be enabled.

OPCache

By default the PHP OPCache does not validate the cache, which is good in production environment. The validation can be enabled with setting the variable php_opcache_validate to true.

Redis

The variable php_redis can be set to true to install the PHP extension for redis.

Composer

By default composer will be installed. This can be prevented with setting the variable php_composer to false.

PHP-FPM

PHP-FPM can be configured with the variables prefixed by php_fpm. The installation of PHP-FPM can also be disabled when setting the variable php_fpm to false.

To give additional users access to the PHP-FPM socket, you can set the variable php_fpm_acl_users.

PHP-FPM process management

With the variables prefixed by php_fpm_pm the process manager of PHP-FPM can be configured. See the documentation for more information.

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - { role: mjanser.php }

To set up a development box with Vagrant you can use the following playbook.

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - { role: mjanser.php }
  vars:
    php_debug: true
    php_fpm_user: vagrant
    php_fpm_group: vagrant
    php_fpm_acl_users: apache,nginx,vagrant

License

MIT