recursively create symlinks with relative paths

[Dan Vaida]

Hello guys,

I am trying to get my head around parsing a folder for its files and creating symlinks for those files found (depth 0) and place them in another directory.

Example: parse sites-available/ and create symlinks in sites-enabled/ with relative paths.

I know one can just use the command/shell modules or even create a task and register the result of a 'ls' command for example and then parse them... but what about the relative path?

One could also use a script like Apache provides for example: a2ensite but what about NGINX?

Trying now the 'with_fileglob' but the task just skips...

Cheers.

[Adam Heath]

On debian, I could install the program 'symlinks'. I don't know if it
is available elsewhere. It might be able to help.

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[Dan Vaida]

Hello,

I also know some non-ansible ways of doing this, but I am interested to see if it can be done entirely in Ansible.

Thanks.

On Aug 5, 2014, at 7:06 PM, Adam Heath <ad...@brainfood.com> wrote:

> On debian, I could install the program 'symlinks'. I don't know if it is available elsewhere. It might be able to help.
>
> On 08/05/2014 12:05 PM, Dan Vaida wrote:
>> Hello guys,
>>
>> I am trying to get my head around parsing a folder for its files and creating symlinks for those files found (depth 0) and place them in another directory.
>>
>> Example: parse sites-available/ and create symlinks in sites-enabled/ with relative paths.
>>
>> I know one can just use the command/shell modules or even create a task and register the result of a 'ls' command for example and then parse them... but what about the relative path?
>> One could also use a script like Apache provides for example: a2ensite but what about NGINX?
>>
>> Trying now the 'with_fileglob' but the task just skips...
>>
>> Cheers.
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[Michael DeHaan]

I would have a list of what sites to enable and what sites to disable centrally, and do this with a simple with_items instead, because it would be better to have a central record than to have potentially hundreds of different servers each being their own sources of record.

- template: src={{ site }}.cfg dest=/path/to/sites-available

  with_items:  enable_sites

- file: src=... dest=...

  with_items:   enable_sites

- file: src=... state=absent

  with_items: disable_sites

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[Dan Vaida]

Thanks Michael and sorry for the late response. This was indeed the path I ended up choosing.

On Thursday, 7 August 2014 23:15:25 UTC+2, Michael DeHaan wrote:

I would have a list of what sites to enable and what sites to disable centrally, and do this with a simple with_items instead, because it would be better to have a central record than to have potentially hundreds of different servers each being their own sources of record.

- template: src={{ site }}.cfg dest=/path/to/sites-available

  with_items:  enable_sites

- file: src=... dest=...

  with_items:   enable_sites

- file: src=... state=absent

  with_items: disable_sites

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Dan Vaida <vaid...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I also know some non-ansible ways of doing this, but I am interested to see if it can be done entirely in Ansible.

Thanks.

On Aug 5, 2014, at 7:06 PM, Adam Heath <ad...@brainfood.com> wrote:

> On debian, I could install the program 'symlinks'.  I don't know if it is available elsewhere.  It might be able to help.
>
> On 08/05/2014 12:05 PM, Dan Vaida wrote:
>> Hello guys,
>>
>> I am trying to get my head around parsing a folder for its files and creating symlinks for those files found (depth 0) and place them in another directory.
>>
>> Example: parse sites-available/ and create symlinks in sites-enabled/ with relative paths.
>>
>> I know one can just use the command/shell modules or even create a task and register the result of a 'ls' command for example and then parse them... but what about the relative path?
>> One could also use a script like Apache provides for example: a2ensite but what about NGINX?
>>
>> Trying now the 'with_fileglob' but the task just skips...
>>
>> Cheers.
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