Changed Apache service state from 'running' to 'started'

[SethFranklin]

Hi Jeff,

I was going through the example under the Playbook Variables heading in Chapter 5, and noticed that when running the service task to start Apache, the state was listed as state: running, however that gave me the error in the logs below, saying that running isn't a valid value of state. I believe it should be changed to state: started, which worked on my end when I changed it to that and tried it out. I am proposing that change in this pull request.

PLAY [all] *********************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************************************
ok: [192.168.56.66]

TASK [Include vars file] *******************************************************
ok: [192.168.56.66] => (item=/mnt/d/Documents/ansible/ch05_01/apache_RedHat.yaml)

TASK [Install Apache.] *********************************************************
ok: [192.168.56.66]

TASK [Ensure Apache is running.] ***********************************************
fatal: [192.168.56.66]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "value of state must be one of: reloaded, restarted, started, stopped, got: running"}

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
192.168.56.66              : ok=3    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0   

Thanks for writing this book, it's been very helpful in streamlining my path to competence in Ansible.

Seth

[geerlingguy]

Ah thank you! Don't know how that slipped through the cracks!