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A2ENMOD(8) | System Manager's Manual | A2ENMOD(8) |
NAME¶
a2enmod, a2dismod - enable or disable an apache2 module
SYNOPSIS¶
a2enmod [-q|--quiet] [-m|--maintmode] [ module ]
a2dismod [-q|--quiet] [-f|--force] [-m|--maintmode] [-p|--purge] [ module ]
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the a2enmod and a2dismod commands.
a2enmod is a script that enables the specified module within the apache2 configuration. It does this by creating symlinks within /etc/apache2/mods-enabled. Likewise, a2dismod disables a module by removing those symlinks. It is not an error to enable a module which is already enabled, or to disable one which is already disabled.
Note that many modules have, in addition to a .load file, an associated .conf file. Enabling the module puts the configuration directives in the .conf file as directives into the main server context of apache2.
OPTIONS¶
- -q, --quiet
- Don't show informative messages.
- -f, --force
- When disabling a module, also cascade disables all modules that depends on it.
- -m, --maintmode
- Enables the maintainer mode, that is the program invocation is effectuated automatically by a maintainer script. This switch should not be used by end users.
- -p, --purge
- When disabling a module, purge all traces of the module in the internal state data base.
EXIT STATUS¶
a2enmod and a2dismod exit with status 0 if all modules are processed successfully, 1 if errors occur, 2 if an invalid option was used.
EXAMPLES¶
a2dismod mime_magic
Enables the mod_imagemap module, and disables the mod_mime_magic module.
ENVIRONMENT¶
The following environment variables may be specified.
- dir_suffix
- Distinguish different instances of apache2. Suffixes /etc/apache2 to build a new APACHE_CONFDIR
- APACHE_CONFDIR
- Override the entire configuraation directory (/etc/apache2$dir_suffix)
- APACHE_ENVVARS
- Override the default envvars file (/etc/apache2$dir_suffix/envvars)
- APACHE_{MODS,CONF,SITES}_AVAIL
- Override the path to the directory holding the available snippets for modules, configuration and sites.
- APACHE_{MODS,CONF,SITES}_ENABLED
- Override the path to the directory holding the enabled snippets for modules, configuration and sites. For example, in a multi-instance setup, you can set dir_suffix=-myinstance and override APACHE_MODS_AVAIL back to /etc/apache2/mods-available to have a single store of snippets for all instances
- APACHE_STATE_DIRECTORY
- Override the path to the state directory (/var/lib/apache2)
FILES¶
- /etc/apache2/mods-available
- Directory with files giving information on available modules.
- /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
- Directory with links to the files in mods-available for enabled modules.
SEE ALSO¶
apache2ctl(8), a2enconf(8), a2disconf(8), a2ensite(8), a2dissite(8).
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Daniel Stone <daniel@sfarc.net> for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, as it is a Debian-specific script with the package.
12 October 2006 |