summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/debian/a2enmod.8
blob: 53d71732f74cda7ac2e4c2d22a710ff3fe171c30 (plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
.\"                                      Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*-
.\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
.\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
.TH A2ENMOD 8 "12 October 2006"
.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
.\"
.\" Some roff macros, for reference:
.\" .nh        disable hyphenation
.\" .hy        enable hyphenation
.\" .ad l      left justify
.\" .ad b      justify to both left and right margins
.\" .nf        disable filling
.\" .fi        enable filling
.\" .br        insert line break
.\" .sp <n>    insert n+1 empty lines
.\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7)
.SH NAME
a2enmod, a2dismod \- enable or disable an apache2 module
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B a2enmod
.RI [ module ]
.PP
.B a2dismod
.RI [ module ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B a2enmod
and
.B a2dismod
commands.
.PP
.B a2enmod
is a script that enables the specified module within the
.B apache2
configuration.  It does this by creating symlinks within
.BR /etc/apache2/mods-enabled .
Likewise,
.B 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.
.SH EXAMPLES
.RS
.B "a2enmod imagemap"
.br
.B "a2dismod mime_magic"
.RE
.PP
Enables the
.B mod_imagemap
module, and disables the
.B mod_mime_magic
module.
.SH FILES
.TP
.B /etc/apache2/mods-available
Directory with files giving information on available modules.
.TP
.B /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
Directory with links to the files in
.B mods-available
for enabled modules.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR apache2ctl (8).
.SH 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.