Ansible: How to delete files and folders inside a directory?

The below code only deletes the first file it gets inside the web dir. I want to remove all the files and folders inside the web directory and retain the web directory. How can I do that?

- name: remove web dir contents
    file: path="/home/mydata/web/{{ item }}" state=absent
    with_fileglob:
      - /home/mydata/web/*

Note: I’ve tried rm -rf using command and shell, but they don’t work. Perhaps I am using them wrongly.

Any help in the right direction will be appreciated.

I am using ansible 2.1.0.0