I new to roots and server configuration so forgive me if I seem somewhat clueless. I’ve been following along the docs and when I go to provision my server with ansible-playbook server.yml -e env=staging I receive this error. (My server ip has been replaced with xx.xxx.xxx.xxx, and my domain myurl…

My bad. I was running Ansible 2.8.0.dev0 . Downgrading to 2.7.5 solved my problem. Thanks for your help.

:thinking: never seen this before. However, if example.com is appearing then you haven’t completely configured your wordpress_sites yet (or maybe not the proper one). Are you editing group_vars/staging/wordpress_sites.yml? You’ll want to set your site_hosts in there according to https://roots.io/t…

Also, if you have a real domain/host with DNS set up, I’d suggest using the letsencrypt SSL provider rather than self-signed. That’s really only meant for development. You can see the docs at https://roots.io/trellis/docs/ssl/#lets-encrypt

Are you editing group_vars/staging/wordpress_sites.yml? Yes I’ve configured it accordingly and there is no instance of example.com in the file. I’d suggest using the letsencrypt SSL provider rather than self-signed. My /staging/wordpress_sites.yml is set to use letsencrypt, I don’t know wh…

No I have the IPs for seperate DO droplets for my staging and productions hosts file.

Did you by chance see a warning about the max tested Ansible version? It’s fine if you missed it (or ignored it :smile:), but just wondering if its working properly.

Yeah the warning was working, just missed it. :relieved:

Bash error during Trellis server provisioning

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swalkinshaw December 20, 2018, 4:19am 5

Thank you for the great debugging and details by the way

This sounds like it could be an issue with your hosts files in Trellis. Do you happen to have the same host/IP in multiple hosts files?

If so, here’s a great explanation/solution: