Using win_copy to copy 1 file to multiple directories.

[phil.s...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I've been working on a script to provision IIS and a basic website (literally just a html page at the moment) When th escript runs it creates two sites, and the directory for the sites in inetpub/wwwroot/*foldername*

I'm using this snippet to copy over the index.html file but i can only get it to copy to the first directory.

- name: Copy index.html to site directory
 win_copy:
 src: files/index.html
 dest: "{{ ansible_iis_root}}\\{{ ansible_site_folder }}\\index.html"

Could someone explain how i could do this recursively?

Something along the lines of

foreach (website in websites) {

win_copy:
  src: files/index.html
  dest: "{{ ansible_iis_root}}\\{{ ansible_site_folder }}\\index.html"

}

I don't expect it to work like that ^^, i think i could do something using the loops and with_items but the documentation has fried me. The end goal is when i run the playbook i specify how many sites to provision and as a base it just copies the html file to each one. Can this be done?

Thank you!

Phil

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[Jordan Borean]

Hi

You probably want to use with_items here and the syntax would look something like

- win_copy:
    src: files/index.html
    dest: '{{ ansible_iis_root }}\{{ item }}\index.html'
  with_items:
  - site 1
  - site 2

What this means is that the win_copy task will copy the file in files/index.html to 2 different locations, e.g. if we consider ansible_iis_root to be C:\wwwroot then the above task will copy it to

• C:\wwwroot\site 1\index.html
• C:\wwwroot\site 2\index.html

What that syntax means is that it will run that task for each item/string that you define and substitute the variable {{ item }} with the current loop value. You can define the list beforehand as a variable and set with_items: '{{ iis_sites }}' if you want to drive it through config.

One thing to note, I would avoid using double quote when setting Windows paths, if you don't use quotes or just a single quote, you don't need to escape the backslashes which is easier to write.

Thanks

Jordan