A2ensite

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, a2dissite 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 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

Disables the default site

a2dissite 000-default

Dateien

Datei	Beschreibung
/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

1. apache2ctl(8)
2. a2enmod(8)
3. a2dismod(8)
4. a2enconf(8)
5. a2disconf(8)