How to Install Ansible AWX without Docker on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

written by Lotfi Waderni April 3, 2019

DEPRECATED

All new steps to install AWX ansible tower will be at:Github Link

The AWX Project (AWX) is an open source community project. In addition, it’s the OpenSource version of the Ansible Tower software sponsored by Red Hat, that enables users to better control their Ansible project use in IT environments.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure AWX without Docker on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 using an RPM Community Edition.

System Requirements for AWX Server

2GB of memory
2 cpu cores
20GB of space

01/ Selinux and Firewall Settings

01- in the first place, let’s install the policycoreutils-python and allow Nginx to connect to network as below:

# yum -y install policycoreutils-python
# setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1

02- If the firewalld is active, than when need to enable the http traffic, execute the following command:

# firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http
success
# firewall-cmd --reload
success

02/ Memcached, Ansible and necessary packages Installation

01- Now, run the following command to install the EPEL Release repository, memchached and Ansible:

# yum install -y memcached ansible epel-release

02- After finishing the installation, we have to enable and start Memcached service by running:

# systemctl enable memcached
# systemctl start  memcached

03/ PostgreSQL Server Installation

01- Before everything, Awx require PostgreSQL Database Server, follow this tutorial How To Install PostgreSQL 10 on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7.

02- Once you finish installing and initiating PostgrSQL Server, we have to create the awx database calledawx and grant access to the user awx as below:

# sudo -u postgres createuser -S awx
# sudo -u postgres createdb -O awx awx

04/ RabbitMQ Installation

01- At first, create the RabbitMQ and Erlang Repositories as below:

# echo "[bintraybintray-rabbitmq-erlang-rpm] 
name=bintray-rabbitmq-erlang-rpm 
baseurl=https://dl.bintray.com/rabbitmq-erlang/rpm/erlang/21/el/7/
gpgcheck=0 
repo_gpgcheck=0 
enabled=1" > /etc/yum.repos.d/rabbitmq-erlang.repo

# echo "[bintraybintray-rabbitmq-rpm] 
name=bintray-rabbitmq-rpm 
baseurl=https://dl.bintray.com/rabbitmq/rpm/rabbitmq-server/v3.7.x/el/7/
gpgcheck=0 
repo_gpgcheck=0 
enabled=1" > /etc/yum.repos.d/rabbitmq.repo

02- In the second place, install RabbitMQ, after that we can proceed with enabling/starting the RabbitMQ service by executing the following commands:

# yum install -y rabbitmq-server
# systemctl enable rabbitmq-server
# systemctl start rabbitmq-server

05/ Nginx Installation and Configuration as Web Server Proxy for AWX

01- Install nginx by running the following command

# yum install -y nginx

02- Configure nginx as web proxy for awx:

# cp -p /etc/nginx/nginx.conf{,.org}
# wget -O /etc/nginx/nginx.conf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/faudeltn/AnsibleTower-awx/master/ansible-awx-install/nginx.conf

03- Enable and start nginx:

# systemctl start nginx
# systemctl enable nginx

06/ AWX Installation and initialization

01- To install awx, run the following commands:

# wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/awx-rpm.repo https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mrmeee/awx/repo/epel-7/mrmeee-awx-epel-7.repo
# yum install -y awx

02- Let’s import the awx Database data:

# sudo -u awx /opt/awx/bin/awx-manage migrate
Operations to perform:
  Apply all migrations: auth, conf, contenttypes, main, oauth2_provider, sessions, sites, social_django, sso, taggit
Running migrations:
  Applying contenttypes.0001_initial... OK
  Applying taggit.0001_initial... OK
  Applying taggit.0002_auto_20150616_2121... OK
  Applying contenttypes.0002_remove_content_type_name... OK
  Applying auth.0001_initial... OK
  Applying main.0001_initial... OK

03– Create an awx web access user account called admin and a setting a password:

# echo "from django.contrib.auth.models import User; User.objects.create_superuser('admin', 'root@localhost', 'password')" | sudo -u awx /opt/awx/bin/awx-manage shell

04- Initialize awx by running the following commands:

# sudo -u awx /opt/awx/bin/awx-manage create_preload_data
Default organization added.
Demo Credential, Inventory, and Job Template added.
(changed: True)

# sudo -u awx /opt/awx/bin/awx-manage provision_instance --hostname=$(hostname)
Successfully registered instance ylclawxas02.yallalabs.local
(changed: True)
2019-04-03 11:07:22,758 DEBUG    awx.main.dispatch publish awx.main.tasks.apply_cluster_membership_policies(eec7263e-bf52-4dad-ad4d-7d4245c47ae4, queue=awx_private_queue)

# sudo -u awx /opt/awx/bin/awx-manage register_queue --queuename=tower --hostnames=$(hostname)
2019-04-03 11:07:35,496 DEBUG    awx.main.dispatch publish awx.main.tasks.apply_cluster_membership_policies(d4a3314d-b3da-42a6-8cbe-a177f97e2e79, queue=awx_private_queue)
Creating instance group tower
2019-04-03 11:07:35,542 DEBUG    awx.main.dispatch publish awx.main.tasks.apply_cluster_membership_policies(f6be7d7d-fcbd-47dd-a1ec-10abe56420c3, queue=awx_private_queue)
Added instance ylclawxas02.yallalabs.local to tower
(changed: True)

04- Afterward, let’s start and enable awx services:

# systemctl start awx-cbreceiver && systemctl enable awx-cbreceiver
# systemctl start awx-dispatcher && systemctl enable awx-dispatcher
# systemctl start awx-channels-worker && systemctl enable awx-channels-worker
# systemctl start awx-daphne && systemctl enable awx-daphne
# systemctl start awx-web && systemctl enable awx-web

07/ Accessing AWX Web Interface

– To conclude, open your browser and access the awx web interface with your server’s IP or FQDN, the username is admin and the password is password.

– The awx dashboard should look like this:

Conclusion

You have successfully installed AWX Ansible Tower on your CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 system. For more information, you can now visit the official Ansible Tower Documentation page.

Lotfi Waderni

I'm a technical writer with a background in Linux and windows server administration.

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67 comments

operacao ti May 31, 2019 at 4:12 pm

hello!
before step 4. – Install erlang – yum install -y https://github.com/rabbitmq/erlang-rpm/releases/download/v20.1.7.1/erlang-20.1.7.1-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm

Lotfi Waderni May 31, 2019 at 4:40 pm

Hi,

we already did updated, thank you .

Spec July 17, 2019 at 2:23 am

Since this installs AWX version 2.x (and the latest is 6.x), any chance you will be updating your instructions to reflect this by chance?

Lotfi Waderni July 17, 2019 at 12:17 pm

To install the latest version you can follow the steps indicated in the below link:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/faudeltn/AnsibleTower-awx/master/ansible-awx-install/install-awx

Hope that will help you.

Mark Skelsey July 17, 2019 at 11:58 pm

Hi lofti,
Thanks for the great set of instructions.
I’m attempting to set this up under a URL subpath=awx with nginx. Our host is shared with other web applications behind the nginx reverse proxy.
I want to use https://hostname/awx/
I have tried a number of configurations but can’t get this to work. Is this something you can assist with?
Kind Regards,
Mark

Mitul shah July 18, 2019 at 7:35 pm

Thanks Lotfi all the steps worked fine howvere while accessing http://localhost or http:// it open nginx home page but it dosent open awx default home page is there any configuration steps missing from my end which will show the home page of awx

Lotfi Waderni July 18, 2019 at 7:53 pm

Hi Mitul,

Did your run those steps?

# cp -p /etc/nginx/nginx.conf{,.org}
# wget -O /etc/nginx/nginx.conf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sunilsankar/awx-build/master/nginx.conf

Try to check the nginx.conf file, restart the nginx serviceif it’s necessary and make sure that awx services are running
systemctl status awx-cbreceiver systemctl status awx-dispatcher systemctl status awx-channels-worker systemctl status awx-daphne systemctl status awx-web

Ansible_newbie July 20, 2019 at 12:50 am

When hit localhost in the browser, I got 502.

This is what I found in nginx error log:

2019/07/19 22:42:18 [crit] 8701#0: *13 connect() to 127.0.0.1:8050 failed (13: Permission denied) while connecting to upstream, client: 192.168.113.2, server: _, request: “GET / HTTP/1.1”, upstream: “uwsgi://127.0.0.1:8050”, host: “localhost:1180”

Lotfi Waderni July 20, 2019 at 8:11 pm

Hi,

Could you please check the status of your Awx Ansible Tower using the following commands :

systemctl status awx-cbreceiver systemctl status awx-dispatcher systemctl status awx-channels-worker systemctl status awx-daphne systemctl status awx-web

Reiko July 24, 2019 at 1:20 pm

Hi,

with this command “sudo -u awx /opt/awx/bin/awx-manage migrate” i got following error:

django.db.utils.OperationalError: FATAL: role “awx” does not exist

Thank you! 🙂

Reiko July 24, 2019 at 1:22 pm

Oh found it, i forgot to create the user and database in the postgres. 🙂 Sorry!

Lotfi Waderni July 24, 2019 at 1:29 pm

Hi,
It is okay, don’t worry. Good luck

Maryam July 25, 2019 at 9:40 am

hi, i tried to put
sudo yum install -y awx
but it said there was no match for awx.

I used this to get the latest awx version:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mrmeee/ansible-awx/repo/epel-7/mrmeee-ansible-awx-epel-7.repo

Lotfi Waderni July 25, 2019 at 11:42 am

Hi Maryam,

To install the latest version you can follow the steps indicated in the below link:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/faudeltn/AnsibleTower-awx/master/ansible-awx-install/install-awx
Tell us if it’s works fine for you, good Luck.

Maryam July 26, 2019 at 6:04 am

Hi, I cant seem to install the repos

No package centos-release-scl available.
No package centos-release-scl-rh available.

Lotfi Waderni July 26, 2019 at 6:24 am

Hi,
First install epel-release

yum -y install epel-release
After that proceed with installing the others repos
yum -y install centos-release-scl centos-release-scl-rh wget

Maryam July 26, 2019 at 7:58 am

yep, thats what i did. managed to install epel-release and wget but not the other two.

Lotfi Waderni July 26, 2019 at 8:03 am

And doesn’t work?, is your os is Centos? What version?

laure May 18, 2020 at 6:51 pm

I lotfi i have the same problem like myriam my os is centos but the version 8. Can U help me please?

Lotfi Waderni May 19, 2020 at 5:46 pm

Hi Laure,

Installing Ansible AWX is still not stable on Centos 8 without docker. We advise you to go with the following tutorial to learn how to install AWX using docker on Centos 8 How to Install Ansible AWX on CentOS 8

Laure May 19, 2020 at 6:06 pm

Hi Lotfi,
thanks for your response.
i have installed awx with docker in another virtual machine and it’s work fine.
now i wan’t to try to install awx without docker but he don’t work . i find some rpm but i don’t get it on the internet.

Lotfi Waderni May 19, 2020 at 7:34 pm

You are welcome, it needs a lot of package dependencies, so better implementing AWX as container in this case.

MOHAMMED GAFFAR July 29, 2019 at 9:57 am

Hi ,

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/faudeltn/AnsibleTower-awx/master/ansible-awx-install/install-awx
Followed above link to install AWX on CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) – but hanging the installation … see the below observation
Please tell me clean solid shell script which does AWX install without docker stuff on CentOS 7.x or Ubuntu 18.04 LTS- Thanks.

Applying social_django.0004_auto_20160423_0400… OK
Applying social_django.0005_auto_20160727_2333… OK
Applying social_django.0006_partial… OK
Applying social_django.0007_code_timestamp… OK
Applying social_django.0008_partial_timestamp… OK
Applying sso.0001_initial… OK
Applying sso.0002_expand_provider_options… OK
Default organization added.
Demo Credential, Inventory, and Job Template added.
(changed: True)
2019-07-29 07:15:38,181 DEBUG awx.main.dispatch publish awx.main.tasks.apply_cluster_membership_policies(647180e5-fee2-491a-8f02-e13c80c81a76, queue=awx_private_queue)

Lotfi Waderni July 29, 2019 at 11:03 am

Hi, we didn’t understand what do you mean.? Does the installation failed with the steps indicated?

MOHAMMED GAFFAR November 11, 2019 at 3:52 pm

Hi ,

I need to install AWX wtihout docker stuff. And I need a source code of the same for making custom AWX tool according to our business requirement. Where can i find, please guide me. Thanks.

Xavier July 30, 2019 at 2:39 pm

Hello,

In step 06/02 : Let’s import the awx Database data:

i have the following error when i launch sudo -u awx /opt/awx/bin/awx-manage migrate :

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/opt/awx/bin/awx-manage”, line 11, in
sys.exit(manage())
File “/opt/awx/embedded/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awx/__init__.py”, line 134, in manage
prepare_env()
File “/opt/awx/embedded/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awx/__init__.py”, line 89, in prepare_env
if not settings.DEBUG: # pragma: no cover
File “/opt/awx/embedded/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py”, line 56, in __getattr__
self._setup(name)
File “/opt/awx/embedded/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py”, line 41, in _setup
self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)
File “/opt/awx/embedded/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py”, line 110, in __init__
mod = importlib.import_module(self.SETTINGS_MODULE)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py”, line 37, in import_module
__import__(name)
File “/opt/awx/embedded/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awx/settings/production.py”, line 17, in
from defaults import * # NOQA
File “/opt/awx/embedded/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awx/settings/defaults.py”, line 367, in
ldap.OPT_REFERRALS: 0,
AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘OPT_REFERRALS’

Can someone help on this issue please ?
Info: Server in Enterprise context with no internet connexion

Thank you,
Xavier.

Lotfi Waderni July 30, 2019 at 3:04 pm

Hi,

I guess it’s trying to connect to the internet to download the dependencies before creating the virtual enviroment.

Abhijit Chakraborty August 7, 2019 at 1:42 pm

I am getting this error

sudo -u awx scl enable rh-python36 rh-postgresql10 “awx-manage migrate”
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/bin/awx-manage”, line 11, in
load_entry_point(‘awx==6.1.0’, ‘console_scripts’, ‘awx-manage’)()
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/__init__.py”, line 126, in manage
prepare_env()
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/__init__.py”, line 91, in prepare_env
if not settings.DEBUG: # pragma: no cover
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py”, line 79, in __getattr__
self._setup(name)
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py”, line 66, in _setup
self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py”, line 157, in __init__
mod = importlib.import_module(self.SETTINGS_MODULE)
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib64/python3.6/importlib/__init__.py”, line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File “”, line 994, in _gcd_import
File “”, line 971, in _find_and_load
File “”, line 955, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File “”, line 665, in _load_unlocked
File “”, line 678, in exec_module
File “”, line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/settings/production.py”, line 14, in
from split_settings.tools import optional, include
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘split_settings’

Lotfi Waderni August 7, 2019 at 3:02 pm

Hi,
Make sure to enable the centos-release-scl and centos-release-scl-rh repositories and install the rh-python36

Adam Sheridan October 11, 2019 at 9:54 am

run “yum search rh-python36 | grep split” and it will show you the mofdule you need to load.
Use “yum install rh-python36-django-split-settings” (it will be something like that.
I had to do this about ten times with different modules as the errors popped up.
It went past in the end.

abde August 14, 2019 at 2:03 pm

the same eroor for me !!!

Lotfi Waderni August 21, 2019 at 1:26 pm

Hi,

Make sure to install all dependencies, when you run this command : rpm -aq | grep rh-python36 | grep split what you got ?

Alyson W September 11, 2019 at 3:44 pm

I’m getting same error. Ran the above and it was not able to find split:

[root@bnalmawx bin]# rpm -aq | grep rh-python36 | grep split
[root@bnalmawx bin]#

Also – awx path does not match your doc:
/opt/rh/rh-pythong36/root/usr/bin/awx-manage

Andrew M August 14, 2019 at 5:45 pm

Getting conflicts when trying to run the following:
[root@centos7 ~]# yum -y install –disablerepo=’*’ –enablerepo=’mrmeee-ansible-awx, base’ -x *-debuginfo rh-python36*
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.grid.uchicago.edu
No package rh-python36* available.
Error: Nothing to do
[root@centos7 ~]# yum -y install –disablerepo=* –enablerepo=’mrmeee-ansible-awx, base’ -x *-debuginfo rh-python36*
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.grid.uchicago.edu
No package rh-python36* available.
Error: Nothing to do
[root@centos7 ~]#

Andrew M August 14, 2019 at 6:13 pm

I tried adding sudo yum -y install centos-release-scl centos-release-scl-rh. And rerunning the yum python-rh command and still got conflicts.

Transaction check error:
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/psycopg2/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-psycopg2-2.7.3.2-1.x86_64 and rh-python36-python-psycopg2-2.7.3-1.el7.x86_64

Lotfi Waderni August 21, 2019 at 1:31 pm

hi,

Based on your OS, install the following repositories:

– CentOS x86_64
yum -y install centos-release-scl centos-release-scl-rh # Software Collections
– CentOS ppc64le
yum -y install centos-release-scl centos-release-scl-rh # Software Collections wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/mrmeee-rh-postgresql10-epel-7.repo https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mrmeee/rh-postgresql10/repo/epel-7/mrmeee-rh-postgresql10-epel-7.repo

Miquel August 16, 2019 at 1:15 pm

Hello i got this error when i execute: sudo -u awx /opt/awx/bin/awx-manage migrate

sudo: /opt/awx/bin/awx-manage: command not found

Lotfi Waderni August 21, 2019 at 12:59 pm

Hi follow those instruction to install Ansible Awx: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/faudeltn/AnsibleTower-awx/master/ansible-awx-install/install-awx

Eddie September 4, 2019 at 11:56 am

How to change the icon at Top-Left logo? Because if possible want to change it to my company icon.

Mike September 9, 2019 at 11:06 pm

I get the no module “split settings”. This is a great idea, but I went thru these and the new instructions and both were a fail.
It would be nice if you put a note at the top of this that redirects people to the git instructions ( even though that didn’t work either ).

Rodrigo Aravena September 11, 2019 at 5:00 pm

Hi, the installation works, thanks! but i have a dude about send notification by slack with AWX, because i cant execute with the examples of Ansible Tower. Can you help me ples? Regards.

Lotfi Waderni September 11, 2019 at 11:56 pm

You can follow the other tutorials of this series to execute some examples and after that you can create a notifications using slack

Eddie September 17, 2019 at 8:05 am

When I try to install it yum -y install –disablerepo=’*’ –enablerepo=’mrmeee-ansible-awx, base’ -x *-debuginfo rh-python36*
It result alot of package conflict

file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/metadata.cpython-36.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/paths.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/paths.cpython-36.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/pep425tags.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/pep425tags.cpython-36.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/pkginfo.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/pkginfo.cpython-36.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/util.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/util.cpython-36.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/wininst2wheel.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/__pycache__/wininst2wheel.cpython-36.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/archive.py conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/bdist_wheel.py conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/egg2wheel.py conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/install.py conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/metadata.py conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/paths.py conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/pep425tags.py conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/pkginfo.py conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/signatures/__init__.py conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/signatures/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/signatures/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/signatures/__pycache__/djbec.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/signatures/__pycache__/djbec.cpython-36.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/signatures/__pycache__/ed25519py.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/signatures/__pycache__/ed25519py.cpython-36.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/signatures/__pycache__/keys.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/signatures/__pycache__/keys.cpython-36.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/signatures/djbec.py conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/signatures/ed25519py.py conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/signatures/keys.py conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/tool/__init__.py conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/tool/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/tool/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/util.py conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wheel/wininst2wheel.py conflicts between attempted installs of rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch and rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch

Error Summary
————-

Lotfi Waderni September 18, 2019 at 7:56 pm

What is your distro version and Arch?
Try to check if the package is installed or not by running this command rpm -qa | grep rh-pyt | sort
if not installed yet, use the following command to install manually yum install rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.* and try again

lokks September 19, 2019 at 2:17 pm

CentOS 7.1 x64

did
yum remove rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch
yum install rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.*
now after
yum install -y ansible-awx
i got

file /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/bin/wheel from install of rh-python36-wheel-0.30.0-1.noarch conflicts with file from package rh-python36-python-wheel-0.30.0a0-1.el7.noarch
and etc for other files

Lotfi Waderni September 19, 2019 at 7:42 pm

hi,
we already updated the steps, try again those steps :
# AWX Repository:
echo "[mrmeee-ansible-awx] name=Copr repo for ansible-awx owned by mrmeee baseurl=https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/mrmeee/ansible-awx/epel-7-$basearch/ type=rpm-md skip_if_unavailable=True gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/mrmeee/ansible-awx/pubkey.gpg repo_gpgcheck=0 enabled=1 enabled_metadata=1" > /etc/yum.repos.d/ansible-awx.repo
And
05- Install Python and dependcies:
yum -y install rh-python36 yum -y install --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo='mrmeee-ansible-awx, base' -x *-debuginfo rh-python36*

Ahrar September 19, 2019 at 10:20 am

[root@awx-sys static]# sudo -u awx scl enable rh-python36 rh-postgresql10 “awx-manage migrate”
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/bin/awx-manage”, line 11, in
load_entry_point(‘awx==7.0.0’, ‘console_scripts’, ‘awx-manage’)()
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/__init__.py”, line 126, in manage
prepare_env()
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/__init__.py”, line 91, in prepare_env
if not settings.DEBUG: # pragma: no cover
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py”, line 79, in __getattr__
self._setup(name)
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py”, line 66, in _setup
self._wrapped = Settings(settings_module)
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py”, line 157, in __init__
mod = importlib.import_module(self.SETTINGS_MODULE)
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib64/python3.6/importlib/__init__.py”, line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File “”, line 994, in _gcd_import
File “”, line 971, in _find_and_load
File “”, line 955, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File “”, line 665, in _load_unlocked
File “”, line 678, in exec_module
File “”, line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/settings/production.py”, line 14, in
from split_settings.tools import optional, include
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘split_settings’

i am getting these with all of these commands
07- Initialize AWX:
sudo -u awx scl enable rh-python36 rh-postgresql10 “awx-manage migrate”
echo “from django.contrib.auth.models import User; User.objects.create_superuser(‘admin’, ‘root@localhost’, ‘password’)” | sudo -u awx scl enable rh-python36 rh-postgresql10 “awx-manage shell”
sudo -u awx scl enable rh-python36 rh-postgresql10 “awx-manage create_preload_data” # Optional Sample Configuration
sudo -u awx scl enable rh-python36 rh-postgresql10 “awx-manage provision_instance –hostname=$(hostname)”
sudo -u awx scl enable rh-python36 rh-postgresql10 “awx-manage register_queue –queuename=tower –hostnames=$(hostname)”

Lotfi Waderni September 19, 2019 at 6:40 pm

Hi,
try to install the django-split package and try again
yum install rh-python36-django-split-settings-0.3.0-1.noarch

lokks September 19, 2019 at 1:35 pm

Tryed everything above, still got

sudo -u awx scl enable rh-python36 rh-postgresql10 “awx-manage migrate”

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git/__init__.py”, line 83, in
refresh()
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git/__init__.py”, line 73, in refresh
if not Git.refresh(path=path):
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git/cmd.py”, line 290, in refresh
raise ImportError(err)
ImportError: Bad git executable.
The git executable must be specified in one of the following ways:
– be included in your $PATH
– be set via $GIT_PYTHON_GIT_EXECUTABLE
– explicitly set via git.refresh()

All git commands will error until this is rectified.

This initial warning can be silenced or aggravated in the future by setting the
$GIT_PYTHON_REFRESH environment variable. Use one of the following values:
– quiet|q|silence|s|none|n|0: for no warning or exception
– warn|w|warning|1: for a printed warning
– error|e|raise|r|2: for a raised exception

Example:
export GIT_PYTHON_REFRESH=quiet

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/bin/awx-manage”, line 11, in
load_entry_point(‘awx==7.0.0’, ‘console_scripts’, ‘awx-manage’)()
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/__init__.py”, line 142, in manage
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py”, line 381, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py”, line 357, in execute
django.setup()
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/__init__.py”, line 24, in setup
apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/apps/registry.py”, line 114, in populate
app_config.import_models()
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/apps/config.py”, line 211, in import_models
self.models_module = import_module(models_module_name)
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib64/python3.6/importlib/__init__.py”, line 126, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File “”, line 994, in _gcd_import
File “”, line 971, in _find_and_load
File “”, line 955, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File “”, line 665, in _load_unlocked
File “”, line 678, in exec_module
File “”, line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/conf/models.py”, line 11, in
from awx.main.models.base import CreatedModifiedModel, prevent_search
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/models/__init__.py”, line 180, in
activity_stream_registrar.connect(Organization)
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/registrar.py”, line 14, in connect
from awx.main.signals import activity_stream_create, activity_stream_update, activity_stream_delete, activity_stream_associate
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/signals.py”, line 43, in
from awx.main.tasks import update_inventory_computed_fields
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/tasks.py”, line 47, in
import git
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git/__init__.py”, line 85, in
raise ImportError(‘Failed to initialize: {0}’.format(exc))
ImportError: Failed to initialize: Bad git executable.
The git executable must be specified in one of the following ways:
– be included in your $PATH
– be set via $GIT_PYTHON_GIT_EXECUTABLE
– explicitly set via git.refresh()

All git commands will error until this is rectified.

Example:
export GIT_PYTHON_REFRESH=quiet

Lotfi Waderni September 19, 2019 at 6:42 pm

Hi,

procceed with those commands after installing rh-git29 : sudo -u awx scl enable rh-python36 rh-postgresql10 rh-git29 "GIT_PYTHON_REFRESH=quiet awx-manage migrate" echo "from django.contrib.auth.models import User; User.objects.create_superuser('admin', 'root@localhost', 'password')" | sudo -u awx scl enable rh-python36 rh-postgresql10 "GIT_PYTHON_REFRESH=quiet awx-manage shell" sudo -u awx scl enable rh-python36 rh-postgresql10 rh-git29 "GIT_PYTHON_REFRESH=quiet awx-manage create_preload_data" # Optional Sample Configuration sudo -u awx scl enable rh-python36 rh-postgresql10 rh-git29 "GIT_PYTHON_REFRESH=quiet awx-manage provision_instance --hostname=$(hostname)" sudo -u awx scl enable rh-python36 rh-postgresql10 rh-git29 "GIT_PYTHON_REFRESH=quiet awx-manage register_queue --queuename=tower --hostnames=$(hostname)"

Rodrigo Aravena September 25, 2019 at 5:31 pm

Hi, I tried to install again AWX in other host and have the problem in this step:
wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/awx-rpm.repo https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mrmeee/awx/repo/epel-7/mrmeee-awx-epel-7.repo
–2019-09-25 12:27:04– https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mrmeee/awx/repo/epel-7/mrmeee-awx-epel-7.repo
Resolving copr.fedorainfracloud.org (copr.fedorainfracloud.org)… 209.132.184.54
Connecting to copr.fedorainfracloud.org (copr.fedorainfracloud.org)|209.132.184.54|:443… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 NOT FOUND
2019-09-25 12:27:06 ERROR 404: NOT FOUND.

Do yo know a rpm avalaible or other rpm to install? Regards.

Lotfi Waderni September 25, 2019 at 5:53 pm

Hi,
All the steps to install awx are in this link https://raw.githubusercontent.com/faudeltn/AnsibleTower-awx/master/ansible-awx-install/install-awx

Rodrigo Aravena September 25, 2019 at 7:45 pm

I tried for this link and in the step 05 have to similar problem:

yum -y install –disablerepo=’*’ –enablerepo=’mrmeee-ansible-awx, base’ -x *-debuginfo rh-python36*
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.orbyta.com
https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/mrmeee/ansible-awx/epel-7-/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 – Not Found
Trying other mirror.
To address this issue please refer to the below wiki article

https://wiki.centos.org/yum-errors

If above article doesn’t help to resolve this issue please use https://bugs.centos.org/.

Nothing to do

Lotfi Waderni September 25, 2019 at 9:16 pm

What’s the version of your operating system? What Architecture? x86_64 or ppc64le?

Rodrigo Aravena September 25, 2019 at 10:54 pm

Centos 7.6 64 bits, regards

Lotfi Waderni September 26, 2019 at 7:21 am

Hi,
Try to change in the repository ansible-awx.repo the baseurl from https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/mrmeee/ansible-awx/epel-7-$basearch/ to https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/mrmeee/ansible-awx/epel-7-x86_64

Run yum update command and after that proceed with in the installation

Adam Sheridan October 11, 2019 at 10:27 am

I’m having an issue were awx-daphne and awx.service just keep restarting.
I’m not seeing any errors in the systemctl logs.

Daniel October 12, 2019 at 8:25 am

Thank you for your instructions. Everything is working for me. I needed to change one line.

The mrmeee-ansible-awx repo,, I needed to change the line from
baseurl=https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/mrmeee/ansible-awx/epel-7-$basearch/
to
baseurl=https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/mrmeee/ansible-awx/epel-7-x86_64/

Danie October 12, 2019 at 8:57 am

Can I install ansible on the same host as the awx server?

Lotfi Waderni October 12, 2019 at 9:44 pm

The ansible engine should be installed when you install awx

Santosh Garole November 18, 2019 at 1:28 pm

Hello

Unable to download ansible-awx

Thanks
Santosh G.

Kai November 25, 2019 at 8:14 pm

After running an yum update on CentOS7 awx got updated too and now the web gui says “AWX is upgrading” for ages. Anything stuck? How to solve this?

Saim December 2, 2019 at 3:49 pm

Is CentOS 8 supported ? or does something change?

Bill January 9, 2020 at 11:28 pm

Your instructions worked great, thanks. My problem is with the “awx” user/group. I’m launching ssh clone commands via project from the tower to a local git server, but since I can’t add the local machine’s awx publickey, I get Permission denied. I want to use an existing Unix service account – for which I can add the publickey – to launch the ssh clones instead of awx. I’m not sure if this is a problem resolvable by the configuration of project’s git clone, or the installation of awx/tower as the Unix service account. I’ve tried creating postgresql username/db associated with the service account, but /var/log/tower is already owned by awx:awx. I’m sure I’m missing something obvious. Any help, thanks.

Mani January 14, 2020 at 10:57 am

I’m unable to launch awx web interface, i have installed all the pre-requisite packages. The Nginx service and awx services are running state. When i given server ip, it launches the default apache page.
Note: I’m using the Centos 7 server.

Ankush January 27, 2020 at 12:18 pm

hi,
i installed and setup is running fine. while setting up inventories, i am unable to fetch AWS ec2 instance list with ec2.py file based on IAM role.

ec2.py –list is working fine manually on server but not from AWX console.
error getting….
3.752 INFO Using PYTHONPATH: /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/lib/python3.6/site-packages:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/bin/awx-manage”, line 11, in
load_entry_point(‘awx==9.1.1’, ‘console_scripts’, ‘awx-manage’)()
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/__init__.py”, line 152, in manage
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py”, line 381, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py”, line 375, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py”, line 323, in run_from_argv
self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py”, line 364, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options)
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/management/commands/inventory_import.py”, line 1157, in handle
raise exc
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/management/commands/inventory_import.py”, line 1047, in handle
venv_path=venv_path, verbosity=self.verbosity).load()
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/management/commands/inventory_import.py”, line 215, in load
return self.command_to_json(base_args + [‘–list’])
File “/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/awx/main/management/commands/inventory_import.py”, line 198, in command_to_json
self.method, proc.returncode, stdout, stderr))
RuntimeError: ansible-inventory failed (rc=1) with stdout:
stderr:
ansible-inventory 2.9.4
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

Do I need to do any configurations in /etc/tower/settings.py file

DATABASES = {
‘default’: {
‘ATOMIC_REQUESTS’: True,
‘ENGINE’: ‘django.db.backends.postgresql’,
‘NAME’: ‘awx’,
# ‘USER’: os.getenv(“DATABASE_USER”, None),
# ‘PASSWORD’: os.getenv(“DATABASE_PASSWORD”, None),
# ‘HOST’: os.getenv(“DATABASE_HOST”, None),
# ‘PORT’: os.getenv(“DATABASE_PORT”, None),
}
}

Julia April 25, 2020 at 10:44 pm

Hello, after all of steps there is not awx-manage file in /opt//awx/bin/
Why? Whats wrong?