# group\_var are not resolved properly

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/group-var-are-not-resolved-properly/18511>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [June 16, 2015, 5:20am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/group-var-are-not-resolved-properly/18511 "2015-06-16T05:20:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Srinivas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Srinivas](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Srinivas)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 5:20am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/group-var-are-not-resolved-properly/18511/1 "2015-06-16T05:20:29Z")

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- development
- inventory
- group\_vars
- webservers
- all.yml
- secret.yml- services
- all.yml- all.yml- webservers.yml
- services.yml  
My inventory file looks like

[webservers]  
dev1

[services]  
dev1  
dev2

I have 2 play-books , webservers.yml which defines a set of roles for the webserver hosts to be executed and similarly another playbook services.yml for deploying some services.

When i try to execute **“ansible-playbook -i development webservers.yml”** i could able to resolve all the variable defined in the webservers directory under group var.  
But when i try to execute **“ansible-playbook -i development services.yml”** i could **NOT** able to resolve any variable defined in **“/group\_vars/services/all.yml”**. But if i keep the same variables in “/group\_vars/all.yml” the variables are resolving properly.

I have tried removing the folders in the group\_vars and specifying all the variables in webservers.yml and services.yml . But no luck.  
As per the ansible [doc](http://docs.ansible.com/intro_inventory.html#splitting-out-host-and-group-specific-data) this should be supported. Could some one help me what is going wrong with the setup.

$ ansible --version  
ansible 1.6.6

Regards,  
Srinivas

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**Author:** ![Srinivas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Srinivas](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Srinivas)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 2:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/group-var-are-not-resolved-properly/18511/2 "2015-06-16T14:05:54Z")

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Thanks Benno . Thats worked out.

The main mistake i was doing is creating the file with the name of the playbook but not with the host groups.