# galaxy.ansible.com cloudflare down awx broken **URL:** \ **Category:** Get Help\ **Tags:** requirements, ansible-galaxy, collections, awx, galaxy-ng\ **Created:** [November 18, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-ansible-com-cloudflare-down-awx-broken/44857 "2025-11-18T14:38:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rbooyer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/rbooyer/32/10629_2.png) [@rbooyer](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rbooyer)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-ansible-com-cloudflare-down-awx-broken/44857/1 "2025-11-18T14:38:06Z")
currently with [galaxy.ansible.com](http://galaxy.ansible.com) down due to a Cloudflare issue in Dallas my awx project is broken as it cannot pull in anything for the requirements.yaml file. * * * collections: - name: community.general - name: awx.awx I get a 500 error (site is down) when syncing my git repo for my playbooks as it cannot update the community.general and awx.awx collections I had to rush to disable all plays and tasks related to these so that the project could sync but is there a way to specify some sort of mirror or be able to pull these from the git repositories instead of [galaxy.ansible.com](http://galaxy.ansible.com)? This could have affected a large number of systems today and by the time i found this i only had about 30 to 45 minutes to disable the plays and tasks related to these collections. Any alternatives would be greatly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![markstos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/markstos/32/9706_2.png) [@markstos](https://forum.ansible.com/u/markstos)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-ansible-com-cloudflare-down-awx-broken/44857/2 "2025-11-18T15:07:43Z")
Do you have another copy of these collections somewhere, maybe checked out on a laptop? If you can’t wait for Cloudflare to recover, you could try explicitly checking the third-party roles into git, bypassing pulling them dynamically. You could grab the roles from their Github repos as another option. It may be unconventional, but checking in third-party roles is my preferred way to manage the few I need, partly because it solves the problem of “what if the upstream copy becomes inaccessible?” ---
**Author:** ![rbooyer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/rbooyer/32/10629_2.png) [@rbooyer](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rbooyer)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-ansible-com-cloudflare-down-awx-broken/44857/3 "2025-11-18T15:13:54Z")
That’s a good idea but i haven’t figured out how to get the roles to be recognized in awx yet. I have created some roles in my awx playbook project but it doesn’t see them under the roles directory. from what i have found the directory tree is this: /var/lib/awx/projects/my\_project/ ├── ansible.cfg ├── inventories/ │ ├── production/ │ │ ├── hosts │ │ ├── group\_vars/ │ │ └── host\_vars/ │ └── staging/ │ ├── hosts │ ├── group\_vars/ │ └── host\_vars/ ├── playbooks/ │ ├── site.yml │ └── webserver\_setup.yml ├── roles/ \< nothing underneath is callable by files under playbooks/ │ ├── common/ │ │ ├── tasks/ │ │ └── defaults/ │ └── webserver/ │ ├── tasks/ │ └── templates/ └── README.md ---
**Author:** ![Lyle\_McKarns](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/lyle_mckarns/32/8142_2.png) [@Lyle\_McKarns](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Lyle_McKarns)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-ansible-com-cloudflare-down-awx-broken/44857/4 "2025-11-18T15:19:30Z")
I haven’t tested this, but you might need to (temporarily) remove those roles from your `requirements.yml` so nothing is trying to pull them from remotes. ---
**Author:** ![markstos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/markstos/32/9706_2.png) [@markstos](https://forum.ansible.com/u/markstos)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-ansible-com-cloudflare-down-awx-broken/44857/5 "2025-11-18T15:19:48Z")
Try updating your ansible.cfg to explicitly add the roles\_path you want. ```auto [defaults] # Keep any paths that there and append this path after a colon roles_path = /var/lib/awx/projects/my_project/ ``` You might also try the path `../roles` to reflect that the roles dir is a sibling to your `playbooks` dir. See also the docs on search paths: > **[Search paths in Ansible — Ansible Community Documentation](https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbook_pathing.html)** ---
**Author:** ![markstos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/markstos/32/9706_2.png) [@markstos](https://forum.ansible.com/u/markstos)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-ansible-com-cloudflare-down-awx-broken/44857/6 "2025-11-18T15:28:13Z")
… and now [https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/](https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/) is back up. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rbooyer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/rbooyer/32/10629_2.png) [@rbooyer](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rbooyer)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-ansible-com-cloudflare-down-awx-broken/44857/7 "2025-11-18T16:25:25Z")
Unfortunately it still doesn’t see it: ERROR! the role ‘debug\_role’ was not found in /runner/project/playbooks/Tests/roles:/runner/requirements\_roles:/var/lib/awx/projects/\_8\_\_tester\_project/roles:/runner/.ansible/roles:/usr/share/ansible/roles:/etc/ansible/roles:/runner/project/playbooks/Tests The error appears to be in ‘/runner/project/playbooks/Tests/test-role.yaml’: line 10, column 7, but may be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem. The offending line appears to be: roles: - debug\_role # noqa: syntax-check[specific] ^ here it’s in the /var/lib/awx/projects/\_8\_\_tester\_project/roles directory bash-5.1$ ls -ahl total 4.0K drwxr-xr-x. 4 awx root 44 Nov 18 15:53 . drwxr-xr-x. 7 awx root 4.0K Nov 18 16:21 .. drwxr-xr-x. 8 awx root 105 Nov 18 15:53 debug\_role bash-5.1$ cd debug\_role/ bash-5.1$ ls -ahl total 4.0K drwxr-xr-x. 8 awx root 105 Nov 18 15:53 . drwxr-xr-x. 4 awx root 44 Nov 18 15:53 .. drwxr-xr-x. 2 awx root 22 Nov 18 15:53 defaults drwxr-xr-x. 2 awx root 22 Nov 18 15:53 handlers drwxr-xr-x. 2 awx root 22 Nov 18 15:53 meta -rw-r–r–. 1 awx root 1.3K Nov 18 15:53 README.md drwxr-xr-x. 2 awx root 22 Nov 18 15:53 tasks drwxr-xr-x. 2 awx root 39 Nov 18 15:53 tests drwxr-xr-x. 2 awx root 22 Nov 18 15:53 vars bash-5.1$ ## bash-5.1$ cd tasks bash-5.1$ cat main.yml # tasks file for debug\_role - name: Debug passed in variable ansible.builtin.debug: msg: “{{ debug\_me }}” notify: It Worked bash-5.1$ ---
**Author:** ![rbooyer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/rbooyer/32/10629_2.png) [@rbooyer](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rbooyer)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-ansible-com-cloudflare-down-awx-broken/44857/8 "2025-11-18T18:11:59Z")
When i run it on a host with ansible installed (host meaning it has the git repo on it and the roles\_path in the global ansible config and this is outside awx) it runs fine but inside awx it can’t find the role ---
**Author:** ![rbooyer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/rbooyer/32/10629_2.png) [@rbooyer](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rbooyer)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-ansible-com-cloudflare-down-awx-broken/44857/10 "2025-11-18T20:16:05Z")
Ok got it to work with the following ansible.cfg in the root of the git project: ```auto [defaults] # Keep any paths that there and append this path after a colon roles_path = /runner/project/roles ```