nginx role

Get with git clone https://github.com/gitinsky/ansible-role-nginx.git roles/nginx

Installs nginx, adds two handlers for reload, nginx reload and reload nginx.

For rpm-based system nginx.conf will be taken from templates.

Variables

nginx_no_default is set to true by default, so it'll remove the default nginx configuration. Set to false to preserve it.

root is set by default to /usr/share/nginx/html (redhat only)

Example

---
- hosts: nginx
  become: yes
  roles:
  - role: nginx

Putting your configuratins

- name: nginx mysite config
  template: src=nginx/mysite.conf dest=/etc/nginx/sites-available/mysite.conf
  notify: reload nginx
  tags:
      - config

- name: enable nginx mysite config
  file: state=link src=../sites-available/mysite.conf dest=/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/mysite.conf
  notify: reload nginx
  tags:
      - config

Notes

Tested on ubuntu 14.04 and CentOS 6.5, ansible 1.8.2 Failes on centos if you don't have a /run directory.