ERROR: tasks is not a legal parameter in an Ansible task or handler

[Afroz Hussain]

Hello All,

I am getting "ERROR: tasks is not a legal parameter in an Ansible task or handler" while running play book with roles but the same code is running fine with plain yaml.

cat /etc/ansible/roles/webservers/tasks/main.yml

---

- hosts: local

  vars:

    http_port: 80

    max_clients: 200

  remote_user: root

  tasks:

  - name: ensure apache is at the latest version

    yum: pkg=httpd state=latest

  - name: write the apache config file

    template: src=/etc/ansible/roles/webservers/templates/httpd.j2 dest=/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

    notify:

    - restart apache

  - name: ensure apache is running (and enable it at boot)

    service: name=httpd state=started enabled=yes

cat /etc/ansible/roles/webservers/handlers/main.yml

---

- name: restart apache

  service: name=httpd state=restarted

cat /etc/ansible/site.yml

---

- hosts: local

  roles:

     - role: webservers

#     - webservers

ansible]# ansible-playbook site.yml

ERROR: tasks is not a legal parameter in an Ansible task or handler

Any help will be appreciated.

Thank,

Aforz

[David Karban]

Hi, 

you cannot have - hosts: , nor vars: in /etc/ansible/roles/webservers/tasks/main.yml, there is place only for tasks. Look into documentation: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_roles.html#task-include-files-and-encouraging-reuse

David Karban
Linux server specialist/Specialista na správu linuxových serverů
www.karban.eu

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