LEMP setup on Ubuntu 20.04 server

Description

LEMP (Nginx, MariaDB and PHP 7.4) setup on Ubuntu 20.04 server.

Tasks

• System update
• Install Nginx
• Removes default virtual host
• Creates new virtual host
• Creates web root directory for virtual host
• Uploads index.nginx-debian.html file
• Upload info.php file (delete it after test)
• Install PHP-FPM
• Configure php.ini
• Install MariaDB
• Sets MariaDB root password
• Removes all anonymous user accounts
• Removes the MariaDB test database

Tested on

Ubuntu 20.04

Requisites

a) Cloud Platform account
b) A VPS server with Ubuntu 20.04 already installed
c) An SSH key pair, with the public key already installed in the remote server

Instructions

a) On your laptop create a working directory

b) In your working directory open a console window

c) Clone github repository

git clone https://github.com/jobetinfosec/ansible-ubuntu-lemp.git

d) Switch to ansible-ubuntu-lemp role directory

cd ansible-ubuntu-lemp

e) Open the hosts file

nano hosts

f) Replace <TEMPORARY_ITEMS> with your own data:

<SERVER_IP> replace <SERVER_IP> with the actual IP address of your remote server
<SUDO_USER_NAME> replace it with sudo user's name
<SUDO_USER_PASSWORD> replace it with sudo user's password

then save and close the file

g) Open the defaults main.yml file

nano roles/lemp/defaults/main.yml

h) Replace <TEMPORARY_ITEMS> with your own data:

<MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD> replace <MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD> with MariaDB root user's password
<DOMAIN_NAME> replace it with your domain name
<TIMEZONE> replace it with your timezone

then save and close the file

i) Check if you are able to ping remote server

ansible -m ping all

You should receive a SUCCESS message

j) Check if any error shows up

ansible-playbook lemp.yml --check

k) Launch installation

ansible-playbook lemp.yml

Licence

MIT licence

Author Information

Created by Roberto Jobet ([email protected]).

Don't hesitate to open an Issue if you find any bug or have suggestions.