I am trying to run a php script on a remote server using ansible. Running the script with the ansible user (which ansible uses to login to the server) works perfectly. The ansible task however fails when there are include statements in my php script.
My php script lays in
/srv/project
it tries to include
includes/someLibrary.phpEverything works fine when running the script as any user with the correct access rights but when running it via an ansible task
- name: run script shell: 'php /srv/project/script.php'
it fails with:
failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /srv/project/includes/someLibrary.php
Running a very basic php script works nicely though.
I just found the solution to the problem. The problem was that when I executed the script by hand, I connected to the server and cd'd into the /srv/project directory before calling php script.php PHPs include in this case looks in the current directory for the files I want to include. When ansible connects to the server it did not change the directory thus producing the no such file or directory error. The solution to this is simple as the shell module takes a chdir as an argument to change the directory to the one specified before running the command.
My ansible task now looks as follows:
- name: run script
shell: 'php /srv/project/script.php'
args:
chdir: '/srv/project'
Thanks everyone for your help!
Ansible runs under a non-interactive ssh session, and thus does not apply user environment settings (eg, .bashrc, .bash_profile). This is typically the cause of different behavior when running interactively vs. not. Check the difference between an interactive printenv and raw: printenv via Ansible, and you'll probably find what needs to be set (via an ansible task/play environment: block) to get things working.