Missing something with host directory/file paths

[Jon Langemak]

It's been awhile since I played with Ansible and right now Im tearing my hair out on this copy problem.  Im trying to copy a directory on a Linux host to a new location.  In ad-hoc ansible, it looks like this...

ansible -m copy -a "src=/usr/share/folder1 dest=/config/folder2" servers

When I run this command, Ansible tells me it can't find the directory...

10.10.10.107 | FAILED! => {

    "changed": false,

    "failed": true,

    "msg": "Unable to find '/usr/share/folder1' in expected paths."

}

Yet, when I go on the host, I can clearly see that the source directory exists.  Im thinking this is something terribly obvious since I've now tried this on multiple hosts and get the same error each time.  I know Ansible is working because I can run adhoc shell commands and touch files, see the pwd, etc.  

Any ideas at all?  What am I missing?

Thanks!

[Brian Coca]

by default ansible looks in the local 'controller' for the `src=` parameter, you need to use `remote_src=yes` for it to look for it on the target machine.

Also note that `remote_src=yes` does not support recursive copying.

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Brian Coca

[Jon Langemak]

Thank you!  Is there a better means to recursively copy then?  Or do I need to copy each file separately?

[Jon Langemak]

I'll answer this for myself.  Seems like just using the command module and doing the copy that way is the best approach.

Thanks for putting me on the right track!