# one task wants to use another.. I think.

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/one-task-wants-to-use-another-i-think/17084>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [December 17, 2014, 3:32am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/one-task-wants-to-use-another-i-think/17084 "2014-12-17T03:32:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dan\_Langille](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@Dan\_Langille](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dan_Langille)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2014, 3:32am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/one-task-wants-to-use-another-i-think/17084/1 "2014-12-17T03:32:46Z")

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I have a role for installing ssl certificates.

I also have a playbook for installing an instance of mailman with various vhosts. One such host like this:

host\_vars/mailman.unixathome.org:

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**Author:** ![Dan\_Langille](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@Dan\_Langille](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dan_Langille)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 2:43am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/one-task-wants-to-use-another-i-think/17084/2 "2014-12-19T02:43:48Z")

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Tonight I figured it out. Starting thinking in terms of hosts, not vhosts. I added this to the hosts file:

In the hosts file I had this:

[mailman\_vhosts]  
[a.example.org](http://a.example.org)  
[b.example.org](http://b.example.org)  
[c.example.org](http://c.example.org)  
[d.example.org](http://d.example.org)

# for now, each mailman vhost lives on the same server, [mailman.vpn.example.org](http://mailman.vpn.example.org)

[mailman\_vhosts:vars]  
ansible\_ssh\_host=[mailman.vpn.example.org](http://mailman.vpn.example.org)

Then, now that I have listed each vhost which needs an ssl cert added to the server, I created this:

mailman-vhosts.yml