diff --git a/roles/web_server/tasks/main.yml b/roles/web_server/tasks/main.yml
index 7b383a6dbe195aa55163c5225230bcc73b36f420..e58cd3d62e02cd5118442be925d1b17ee53ab870 100644
--- a/roles/web_server/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/web_server/tasks/main.yml
@@ -46,4 +46,35 @@
             owner=root group=www-data mode=640
 
 - name: Enable nginx service
-  service: name=nginx enabled=yes state=started
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+  service: name=nginx enabled=yes state=started
+
+- name: Install base packages for Python web applications
+  apt: name="{{ item }}" state=installed
+  with_items:
+    - supervisor
+    - virtualenv
+    - virtualenvwrapper
+
+- name: Install base packages for PHP web applications
+  apt: name="{{ item }}" state=installed
+  with_items:
+    - php5-fpm
+
+- name: Enable services used for running web applications
+  service: name="{{ item }}" enabled=yes state=started
+  with_items:
+    - php5-fpm
+    - supervisor
+
+- name: Read timezone on server
+  slurp: src=/etc/timezone
+  register: server_timezone
+
+- name: Configure timezone for PHP
+  template: src="php_timezone.ini.j2" dest="{{ item }}/30-timezone.ini"
+            owner=root group=root mode=644
+  with_items:
+    - /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/
+    - /etc/php5/fpm/conf.d/
+  notify:
+    - Restart php5-fpm
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