Remote installation is failing with task webserver-app : Set default solr server host from hostvars

[pejuko]

Hi,
I proceed as written in https://islandora.github.io/documentation/installation/ section Installing a remote environment. The installation process is interrupted with error:

TASK [webserver-app : Set default solr server host from hostvars] ****************************************
Tuesday 16 June 2020  10:56:39 +0200 (0:00:03.749)       0:19:38.676 ********** 
fatal: [default]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: 'dict object' has no attribute 'ansible_host'\n\nThe error appears to have been in '/home/pejuko/islandora-playbook/roles/internal/webserver-app/tasks/solr.yml': line 6, column 3, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n# Solr server configuration should go into the solr playbook: https://github.com/Islandora-Devops/claw-playbook/blob/dev/solr.yml\n- name: Set default solr server host from hostvars\n  ^ here\n"}

So I believe there is missing information about how to configure solr (probably in group_vars/solr.yml)
Can you, please, provide some information how to set custom domain for solr?
Thanks.

[whikloj]

Hi Petr, Are you installing Islandora to more than one server? This error (and I'm sure I've seen it) is usually related to the hosts file. Its trying to get the hostname for the server to install solr on. I used this playbook (a bit ago) to install to a single remote machine and this is my hosts file. # Generated by Vagrant default ansible_host=fram.ad.umanitoba.ca ansible_port=22 ansible_user=whikloj ansible_ssh_private_key_file='/Users/whikloj/.ssh/id_fram_rsa' ansible_become=yes [karaf] default [database] default [webserver] default [tomcat] default [solr] default [crayfish] default So for Solr it pulls the default row at the top and then the ansible_host variable from there. Maybe check there are no spelling issues or extra spaces that might cause it to fail that look up. cheers, jared

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On 2020-06-16 6:13 a.m., Petr Kovář wrote: Hi, I proceed as written in https://islandora.github.io/documentation/installation/ section Installing a remote environment. The installation process is interrupted with error: |TASK [webserver-app : Set default solr server host from hostvars] **************************************** Tuesday 16 June 2020 10:56:39 +0200 (0:00:03.749) 0:19:38.676 ********** fatal: [default]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: 'dict object' has no attribute 'ansible_host'\n\nThe error appears to have been in '/home/pejuko/islandora-playbook/roles/internal/webserver-app/tasks/solr.yml': line 6, column 3, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n# Solr server configuration should go into the solr playbook: https://github.com/Islandora-Devops/claw-playbook/blob/dev/solr.yml\n- name: Set default solr server host from hostvars\n ^ here\n"} | So I believe there is missing information about how to configure solr (probably in group_vars/solr.yml) Can you, please, provide some information how to set custom domain for solr? Thanks. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1547>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAVZVYNTLPZKP3EKIJ64WTTRW5HVPANCNFSM4N7QOBDQ>.

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[pejuko]

Hi Jared,
it works! I was missing the ansible_host variable.
In the documentation is only

default ansible_ssh_host=example.org ansible_ssh_user=root ansible_ssh_private_key_file='/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa'

but should be

default ansible_host=example.org ansible_ssh_host=example.org ansible_ssh_user=root ansible_ssh_private_key_file='/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa'

btw. I'm installing Islandora only in virtual box just as a practice before installing it on a production server.

[whikloj]

Ooooo right you are, I'll verify with others but I think we need to correct that. Good catch.

[ainsofs]

Thanx for this. I had a similar issue with seadragon config using ansible to provision a centos7 server. Perhaps this page could be updated to reflect the ansible_host=example.org variable in the hosts file - https://islandora.github.io/documentation/installation/

# default ansible_ssh_host=example.org ansible_ssh_user=root ansible_ssh_private_key_file='/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa'
default ansible_host=example.org ansible_ssh_host=example.org ansible_ssh_user=root ansible_ssh_private_key_file='/home/username/.ssh/id_rsa'

Or update the roles

[whikloj]

I knew I had seen this, but then I went and made a duplicate ticket and a PR to fix this. Under #1557

[dannylamb]

Resolved via bbe1616