A2ENSITE(8)                   System Manager's Manual                  A2ENSITE(8)

NAME
       a2ensite, a2dissite - enable or disable an apache2 site / virtual host

SYNOPSIS
       a2ensite [ [-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, 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 suc‐
       cessfully, 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 ALSO
       apache2ctl(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)