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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, 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  al‐
       ready 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 automati‐
              cally 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 er‐
       rors 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 AT debian.org> (based on the  a2enmod  manual
       page by Daniel Stone <daniel AT sfarc.net>) for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.



                                             8 June 2007                                 A2ENSITE(8)