# Overriding nested role variable from playbook

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/overriding-nested-role-variable-from-playbook/14168>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [December 17, 2013, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/overriding-nested-role-variable-from-playbook/14168 "2013-12-17T15:58:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Brian\_Tatnall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f07891/32.png) [@Brian\_Tatnall](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Tatnall)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/overriding-nested-role-variable-from-playbook/14168/1 "2013-12-17T15:58:28Z")

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I’m getting an error when I try to override a nested role variable from a playbook.

Example:

appservers.yml

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**Author:** ![tannerjc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/tannerjc/32/985_2.png) [@tannerjc](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tannerjc)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/overriding-nested-role-variable-from-playbook/14168/2 "2013-12-19T15:50:54Z")

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Can we see the task that is failing?