# a2ensite - enable or disable an apache2 site / virtual host - man(8) - [phpMan]

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## 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 _site_s 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)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/apache2ctl/8/markdown), [**a2enmod**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/a2enmod/8/markdown), [**a2dismod**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/a2dismod/8/markdown), [**a2enconf**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/a2enconf/8/markdown), [**a2disconf**(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/a2disconf/8/markdown).

## 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)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/A2ENSITE/8/markdown)