A2ENSITE(8) System Manager's Manual A2ENSITE(8)
NAME
a2ensite, a2dissite - enable or disable an apache2 site / virtual host
SYNOPSIS
a2ensite [-q|--quiet] [-m|--maintmode] [ site ]
a2dissite [-q|--quiet] [-m|--maintmode] [-p|--purge] [ site ]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the a2ensite and a2dissite commands.
a2ensite is a script that enables the specified site (which contains a
<VirtualHost> block) within the apache2 configuration. It does this by
creating symlinks within /etc/apache2/sites-enabled. Likewise, a2dis-
site disables a site by removing those symlinks. It is not an error to
enable a site which is already enabled, or to disable one which is al-
ready disabled.
Apache treats the very first virtual host enabled specially as every re-
quest not matching any actual directive is being redirected there. Thus
it should be called 000-default in order to sort before the remaining
hosts to be loaded first.
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
a2ensite and a2dissite exit with status 0 if all sites are processed
successfully, 1 if errors occur, 2 if an invalid option was used.
EXAMPLES
a2dissite 000-default
Disables the default site.
FILES
/etc/apache2/sites-available
Directory with files giving information on available sites.
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled
Directory with links to the files in sites-available for enabled
sites.
SEE ALSO
apache2ctl(8), a2enmod(8), a2dismod(8), a2enconf(8), a2disconf(8).
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Stefan Fritsch <sf@debian.org> (based on
the a2enmod manual page by Daniel Stone <daniel@sfarc.net>) for the De-
bian GNU/Linux distribution.
8 June 2007 A2ENSITE(8)
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