[Mageia-dev] changing apache configuration handling

Thu Sep 15 00:34:39 CEST 2011

Hello
+On mercredi 14 septembre 2011 at 10:06, Guillaume Rousse wrote :
+> So, we have the following choice:
+> - change current behaviour, by keeping conditionals in configuration 
+> file. To use php, you have to install mod_php, and add -DHAVE_PHP5 in 
+> /etc/sysconfig/httpd. This means additional configuration is required, 
+> but also possibility to temporary disable without uninstalling.
+> 
+> - keep current behaviour, by removing conditionals in configuration 
+> file. This means no additional configuration needed, but also than 
+> installing implies usage.
+
+How about the way it works on debian?
+
+Their apache2.2-common package, which contains all the base configuration 
+files, has a mods-available and a mods-enabled dirs in the apache conf dir 
+(/etc/apache2 for debian).
+Modules load command and specific configuration (if needed) are provided as 
+*.load and *.conf files in the mods-available dir, then the a2enmod command 
+is used to enable (and its counterpart e2dismod disables them) some mods by 
+creating symlink in the mods-enabled dir.
+The main apache2.conf file then has
+Include mods-enabled/*.load
+Include mods-enabled/*.conf
+to load the actually enabled mods.
+a2enmod also knows about modules dependencies via special comments in the 
+*.load files.
+
+Then there is a similar mechanism for sites installed by packages with 
+sites-available and sites-enabled directories and a2ensite a2dissite 
+commands.
+
+see
+http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/apache2.2-common
+http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=A2ENMOD
+http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=A2ENSITE
+
+-- 
+Renaud Michel
+