No action detected in task --- WAF install failing

[old-hpux]

Attempted to install WAF via the gui or command line and fails with same message:

user@hostname:/var/www/haproxy-wi/app$ sudo /bin/bash scripts/waf.sh PROXY= HAPROXY_PATH=/etc/haproxy VERSION=1.8.8-1ubuntu0.11 SSH_PORT=22 HOST=X.X.X.X USER=uuser PASS=None KEY=/var/www/haproxy-wi/keys/Myserver_Default.pem
ERROR! no action detected in task. This often indicates a misspelled module name, or incorrect module path.

The error appears to have been in '/var/www/haproxy-wi/app/scripts/ansible/roles/waf/tasks/main.yml': line 370, column 7, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

always:
- name: Remove modsecurity.tar.gz
^ here

error: Cannot install WAF

[Aidaho12]

it looks like you server does not have the Internet connection and cannot download ModSec. Try to download ModSec

[old-hpux]

the server has direct internet connection and I was able to download modsec this way:
wget https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/releases/download/v2.9.5/modsecurity-2.9.5.tar.gz

but the question comes, how do I install this? untar to a particular location?

[Aidaho12]

Unfortunately, it will not help. What ansible version do you use?

[old-hpux]

$ ansible --version
ansible 2.5.1
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = [u'/home/ubuntu/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible
executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
python version = 2.7.17 (default, Mar 18 2022, 13:21:42) [GCC 7.5.0]

[Aidaho12]

Pretty old version, update it to 2.12 at least

[old-hpux]

Thank you, That fixed it. As I'm on Bionic 18.04, the latest is 2.9.27, but it worked!

I must have missed the version requirement in the install docs. Thanks for your guidance!