NAME¶

a2enconf, a2disconf - enable or disable an apache2 configuration file

SYNOPSIS¶

a2enconf [-q|--quiet] [-m|--maintmode] [ configuration ]

a2disconf [-q|--quiet] [-m|--maintmode] [-p|--purge] [ configuration ]

DESCRIPTION¶

This manual page documents briefly the a2enconf and a2disconf commands.

a2enconf is a script that enables the specified configuration file within the apache2 configuration. It does this by creating symlinks within /etc/apache2/conf-enabled. Likewise, a2disconf disables a specific configuration part by removing those symlinks. It is not an error to enable a configuration which is already enabled, or to disable one which is already disabled.

Note that many configuration file may have a dependency to specific modules. Unlike module dependencies, these are not resolved automatically. Configuration fragments stored in the conf-available directory are considered non-essential or being installed and manged by reverse dependencies (e.g. web scripts).

OPTIONS¶

-q, --quiet

Don't show informative messages.

-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¶

a2enconf and a2disconf exit with status 0 if all configurations are processed successfully, 1 if errors occur, 2 if an invalid option was used.

EXAMPLES¶

Enables Apache security directives stored in the security configuration files, and disables the charset configuration.

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/conf-available

Directory with files giving information on available configuration files.

/etc/apache2/conf-enabled

Directory with links to the files in conf-available for enabled configuration files.

SEE ALSO¶

apache2ctl(8), a2enmod(8), a2dismod(8), a2ensite(8), a2dissite(8).

AUTHOR¶

This manual page was written by Arno Toell <debian@toell.net> for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, as it is a Debian-specific script with the package.