Ansible Playbook to install PHP7

main.yml

- name: Install Packages Needed To Compile PHP 7
  apt: pkg={{ item }} state=latest
  with_items:
    - git
    - autoconf 
    - bison 
    - libxml2-dev 
    - libbz2-dev 
    - libmcrypt-dev 
    - libcurl4-openssl-dev 
    - libltdl-dev 
    - libpng-dev 
    - libpspell-dev
    - libreadline6
    - libreadline6-dev

- name: Clone PHP7
  sudo: false
  git: repo=https://git.php.net/repository/php-src.git dest=/home/vagrant/php-src

- name: Create a few directories
  file: path=/etc/php7/{{ item }} recurse=true state=directory
  with_items:
    - conf.d
    - cli/conf.d
    - fpm/conf.d
    - /usr/local/php7

- name: Run buildconf
  sudo: false
  shell: ./buildconf
  args:
    chdir: /home/vagrant/php-src 

- name: Configure the build.
  sudo: false
  shell: ./configure {{ php7_configure_string }} 
  args:
    chdir: /home/vagrant/php-src

- name: Configure the cli build.
  sudo: false
  shell: ./configure {{ php7_cli_configure_string }} 
  args:
    chdir: /home/vagrant/php-src

- name: Build PHP7
  sudo: false
  shell: make
  args:
    chdir: /home/vagrant/php-src

- name: Install PHP7
  shell: make install
  args:
    chdir: /home/vagrant/php-src

php7.yml

php7_configure_string: --prefix=/usr/local/php7 --enable-bcmath --with-bz2 --enable-calendar --enable-exif --enable-dba --enable-ftp --with-gettext --with-gd --enable-mbstring --with-mcrypt --with-mhash --enable-mysqlnd --with-mysql=mysqlnd --with-mysqli=mysqlnd --with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd --with-openssl --enable-pcntl --with-pspell --enable-shmop --enable-soap --enable-sockets --enable-sysvmsg --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --enable-wddx --with-zlib --enable-zip --with-readline --with-curl
php7_cli_configure_string: --with-config-file-path=/etc/php7/cli --with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php7/cli/conf.d

Hello,

Your Create a few directories task should look like this, shouldn't it?

- name: Create a few directories
  file: path={{ item }} recurse=true state=directory
  with_items:
    - /etc/php7/conf.d
    - /etc/php7/cli/conf.d
    - /etc/php7/fpm/conf.d
    - /usr/local/php7

Otherwise you end up with a /etc/php7/usr/local/php7 directory and the /usr/local/php7 directory is not created. Is that what you wanted?