Exceptions when trying to use apache2_mod_proxy

[Jeff Sondag]

I'm trying to manage an apache load balancer with apache2_mod_proxy, and am getting the following error. If someone could help that would be very much appreciated.

I've submitted it as a bug with more information, here. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/54259

TASK [apache2_mod_proxy] ********************************************************************************************************

An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: TypeError: first argument must be string or compiled pattern

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "module_stderr": "Traceback (most recent call last):

  File \"/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1553280134.74-29374324244571/AnsiballZ_apache2_mod_proxy.py\", line 114, in <module>

    _ansiballz_main()

  File \"/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1553280134.74-29374324244571/AnsiballZ_apache2_mod_proxy.py\", line 106, in _ansiballz_main

    invoke_module(zipped_mod, temp_path, ANSIBALLZ_PARAMS)

  File \"/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1553280134.74-29374324244571/AnsiballZ_apache2_mod_proxy.py\", line 49, in invoke_module

    imp.load_module('__main__', mod, module, MOD_DESC)

  File \"/tmp/ansible_apache2_mod_proxy_payload_6P4Nj2/__main__.py\", line 444, in <module>

  File \"/tmp/ansible_apache2_mod_proxy_payload_6P4Nj2/__main__.py\", line 388, in main

  File \"/tmp/ansible_apache2_mod_proxy_payload_6P4Nj2/__main__.py\", line 271, in get_member_status

  File \"/tmp/ansible_apache2_mod_proxy_payload_6P4Nj2/__main__.py\", line 260, in get_member_attributes

  File \"/usr/lib64/python2.7/re.py\", line 142, in search

    return _compile(pattern, flags).search(string)

  File \"/usr/lib64/python2.7/re.py\", line 238, in _compile

    raise TypeError, \"first argument must be string or compiled pattern\"

TypeError: first argument must be string or compiled pattern

", "module_stdout": "", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE

See stdout/stderr for the exact error", "rc": 1}

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My playbook:

- name: test apache load balancer management

  hosts: localhost

  gather_facts: no

  tasks:

  - apache2_mod_proxy:

      balancer_vhost: 10.10.20.30

      tls: yes

      validate_certs: no

[Jean-Yves LENHOF]

Hi,

First point, did you install "BeautifulSoup python module" as written in documentation ?

Seems you can install this module with EPEL repo (https://centos.pkgs.org/7/epel-x86_64/python-BeautifulSoup-3.2.1-7.el7.noarch.rpm.html)

Regards,

JYL

[Jeff Sondag]

I installed it the following way, which installed version 3.2.1

wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
yum install ./epel-release-latest-*.noarch.rpm
yum -y install python-pip
pip install beautifulsoup

[Jean-Yves LENHOF]

Le 28/03/2019 à 17:05, Jeff Sondag a écrit :

Did you enabled balancer-manager as written in documentation ?

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_proxy_balancer.html

Regards,

[Jeff Sondag]

Yes, the server I'm pointing at is a production server working as a load balancer for Genesys Web Services.