Make monit status page public

README.md

@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ Create `A` or `CNAME` records which point to your server's IP address:
 * `news.example.com` (for Selfoss)
 * `cloud.example.com` (for NextCloud)
 * `git.example.com` (for gitea)
+* `status.example.com` (for monit)
 * `matrix.example.com` (for riot)
 
 ### 6. Run the Ansible Playbooks

roles/monitoring/defaults/main.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+secret_root: '{{ inventory_dir | realpath }}'
+secret_name: 'secret'
+secret: '{{ secret_root + "/" + secret_name }}'
+
+# must match values in roles/common
+monit_admin_username: "{{ main_user_name }}"
+monit_admin_password: "{{ lookup('password', secret + '/' + 'monit_admin_password length=16') }}"
+
+monit_page_public: 1
+monit_subdomain: status

roles/monitoring/tasks/monit.yml

@@ -89,3 +89,18 @@
     - sshd
     - tomcat
   notify: restart monit
+
+- name: Create the Apache monit sites config files
+  template:
+    src=etc_apache2_sites-available_monit.j2
+    dest=/etc/apache2/sites-available/monit_{{ item.name }}.conf
+    owner=root
+    group=root
+  with_items: "{{ virtual_domains }}"
+  when: monit_page_public == 1
+
+- name: Enable Apache sites (creates new sites-enabled symlinks)
+  command: a2ensite monit_{{ item }}.conf creates=/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/monit_{{ item }}.conf
+  notify: restart apache
+  with_items: "{{ virtual_domains | json_query('[*].name') }}"
+  when: monit_page_public == 1

roles/monitoring/templates/etc_apache2_sites-available_monit.j2

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+<VirtualHost *:80>
+    ServerName {{ monit_subdomain }}.{{ item.name }}
+
+    Redirect permanent / https://{{ item.name }}/
+</VirtualHost>
+
+<VirtualHost *:443>
+    ServerName {{ monit_subdomain }}.{{ item.name }}
+
+    SSLEngine               On
+    DocumentRoot            "{{ item.doc_root }}"
+    DirectoryIndex          index.html
+    Options                 -Indexes
+    HostnameLookups         Off
+
+    ProxyRequests           Off
+    ProxyPreserveHost       On
+    ProxyPass               / http://localhost:2812/
+    ProxyPassReverse        / http://localhost:2812/
+</VirtualHost>

roles/monitoring/templates/etc_monit_monitrc.j2

@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ set alert {{ admin_email }}
 set httpd port 2812 and
     use address localhost  # only accept connection from localhost
     allow localhost        # allow localhost to connect to the server and
-    allow admin:monit      # require user 'admin' with password 'monit'
+    allow {{ monit_admin_username }}:{{ monit_admin_password }}
 
 #    allow @monit           # allow users of group 'monit' to connect (rw)
 #    allow @users readonly  # allow users of group 'users' to connect readonly