How can escape colon in a string within an Ansible YAML file?

Question

I want to change one line of my code in file /var/www/kibana/config.js during installation from

elasticsearch: \"http://\"+window.location.hostname+\":9200\"         


        

Answer 1

you need to enclose the entire line in ", where : appears.

lineinfile:
'dest=/var/www/kibana/config.js
backrefs=true
regexp="(elasticsearch.* \"http.*)$"
line="elasticsearch\: \ {{ elasticsearch_URL }}:{{ elasticsearch_port }} \ "
state=present'  

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