Fixed WordPress Permissions

Updated WordPress to 5.1.1. Gave apache2 ownership over Public HTML
Enabled mod_rewrite and options to allow pretty urls.

roles/wordpress/tasks/main.yml

@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@
     src: /tmp/wordpress-{{ wp_version }}.tar.gz
     dest: "{{ wp_dir }}/public_html"
     extra_opts: [--strip-components=1]
+    owner: "www-data"
+    group: "www-data"
     remote_src: yes
 
 - name: Generate Keys and Salts
@@ -67,8 +69,8 @@
   template:
     src: wp-config.php.j2
     dest: "{{ wp_dir }}/public_html/wp-config.php"
-    owner: nobody
-    group: nogroup
+    owner: "www-data"
+    group: "www-data"
 
 - name: Apply Apache Configuration
   template:
@@ -76,6 +78,12 @@
     dest: /etc/apache2/sites-available/{{ wp_domain }}.conf
   notify: Reload Apache2
 
+- name: Enable Apache Module rewrite
+  apache2_module:
+    state: present
+    name: rewrite
+  notify: Reload Apache2
+
 - name: Enable Apache Website
   shell: a2ensite {{ wp_domain }}
   args:

roles/wordpress/templates/wordpress.conf.j2

@@ -8,4 +8,10 @@
 	CustomLog {{ wp_dir }}/logs/access.log combined
 </VirtualHost>
 
+<Directory {{ wp_dir }}/public_html>
+    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
+    AllowOverride All
+    Require all granted
+</Directory>
+
 # vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet