Drupal+Nginx+PHP-FPM Deployment

• Requires Ansible 1.8 or newer
• Expects Ubuntu 14.04 or CentOS/RedHat 6.5 hosts
• If using vagrant with ubuntu you need to apt-get install nfs-kernel-server

These playbooks (found in sample_yml) deploy a simple all-in-one configuration of the popular Drupal software platform and CMS, frontend by the Nginx web server and the PHP-FPM process manager. To use with vagrant:

ansible-galaxy install -r provisioning/requirements.yml
cp sample_yml/site.example.yml site.yml
edit site.yml
vagrant up

The playbooks will configure MySQL, Drupal, Nginx, and PHP-FPM. When the run is complete, you can access server (http://192.168.88.88/) to begin the Drupal configuration. You can also edit your hosts file to access the server with a domain name.

Then run the playbook with a remote server instead of a vagrant VM you need to create a hosts file and a site.yml file and then run the ansible-playbook command, like this:

ansible-playbook -i hosts site.yml

There are example hosts and site.yml files in the sample_yml folder.

TODO

Here are some ideas for ways that these playbooks could be extended:

• Use our own nginx.conf based on (epoll, multi_accept, file_cache):
  • http://www.slashroot.in/nginx-web-server-performance-tuning-how-to-do-it
  • http://www.codestance.com/tutorials-archive/nginx-tuning-for-best-performance-255
  • https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-nginx/blob/master/nginx.conf
  • https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-optimize-nginx-configuration
• add xhprof to the php role
• test debian support
• handle Drupal upgrades automatically.
• add goaccess with geoip (http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/install/country/)

We would love to see contributions and improvements, so please fork this repository on GitHub and send us your changes via pull requests.

Other Defined Roles

php7-fpm

PHP 7 for ubuntu 14.04.

hhvm

HHVM serves as a replacement for php-fpm role. It is already configured as a fastcgi server. HHVM is only compiled for 64bit machines and right now this role is only for ubuntu 14.04.

syslog

The syslog module disables the watchdog (dblog) module and enables the syslog module for each of your sites. It depends on your sites already being installed. It will also configure syslog (/etc/rsyslog.conf) to log all drupal events to /var/log/drupal.log

mailer

A role to allow the server to send emails. It uses postfix and the default distribution configuration.

solr

A role to run solr using the provided jetty example, which is the recommended method instead of using tomcat or full jetty.

http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/difference-between-apache-tomcat-vs-Jetty-td4096680.html