For Debian / Ubuntu Linux you can enable or disable any apache module using a2enmod and a2dismod. You don’t need to edit the conf file for that unless you are having some problem with this method. The syntax of these commands is really simple. For centos and other redhat based distributions we don`t use a2enmod and a2dismod, but another methode is used to enable and disable modules in apache.
For Debian / Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu and debian comes with two scripts:
1-a2enmod is a script that enables the specified module within the apache2 configuration. It does this by creating symlinks within /etc/apache2/mods-enabled.
2- 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.
To enable a module:
sudo a2enmod module_name
To disable a module:
sudo a2dismod module_name
For instance, to enable mod_expires, execute sudo a2enmod expires in the terminal. If you see the following output, you can be sure that it has been enabled.
pirat9@pirat9-pc:~$ sudo a2enmod expiresEnabling module expires.Run ‘/etc/init.d/apache2 restart’ to activate new configuration!
To disable mod_expires:
sudo a2dismod expires
Restart the server after enabling the module.
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
For Centos/Fedora and other redhat based linux distribuntions:
For centos/ fedora and other redhat based distributiosn, things work different than in Ubuntu/ Debian, you need to modify *.conf file stored in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ directory. So for example if you don`t want to use the module expire, to disable this module, you need to rename expire.conf to mod_expire.bkp and then restart apache.
If you want to enable the module again simply rename it to it original name and then restart apache.
Example: To enable module expire, we need to rename mod_expire.bkp to the original name : mod_expire The command will be:
# cd /etc/httpd/conf.d/# mv mod_expire.bkp expire.conf# /etc/init.d/httpd restart
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