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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

Don't show informative messages.
When disabling a module, also cascade disables all modules that depends on it.
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.
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

a2enmod imagemap
a2dismod mime_magic

Enables the mod_imagemap module, and disables the mod_mime_magic module.

ENVIRONMENT

The following environment variables may be specified.

Distinguish different instances of apache2. Suffixes /etc/apache2 to build a new APACHE_CONFDIR
Override the entire configuraation directory (/etc/apache2$dir_suffix)
Override the default envvars file (/etc/apache2$dir_suffix/envvars)
Override the path to the directory holding the available snippets for modules, configuration and sites.
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
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