A2ENSITE(8)A2ENSITE(8)NAME
a2ensite, a2dissite - enable or disable an apache2 site / virtual host
SYNOPSISa2ensite [ [-q|--quiet] site]
a2dissite [ [-q|--quiet] 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
already disabled.
Apache treats the very first virtual host enabled specially as every
request 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 STATUSa2ensite 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 ALSOapache2ctl(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
Debian GNU/Linux distribution.
8 June 2007 A2ENSITE(8)
