ansible-galaxy error: API server not found

Question

I'm trying to install an ansible role through ansible-galaxy. I run the command

ansible-galaxy install nickhammond.logrotate

and get the response:

ERROR! The API server (https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/) is not responding, please try again later.

I've tried updating my version of ansible (1.9.1, 1.9.2, 2.0.1) but nothing seems to fix the problem. I can get to the API server, by just going to https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/ in my web browser. Any ideas why galaxy doesn't seem to be working for me?

Answer 1

If you use proxy, set evnironment "https_proxy" as "http://ip:port" format. not "ip:port" format.

export https_proxy=http://ip:port

Answer 2

I had the same issue. For me ansible was installed by pipand I had to uninstall it first:

pip uninstall ansible

Then I reinstalled it with brew

brew install ansible

After this it worked like charm.