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I’m looking to run a Debian VPS as a web server. I’ve got Debian 6 installed, and I’ve got the default Apache 2 installation on there.

I’ve read a bit about how Apache 2 configuration is arranged slightly differently on Debian, and I just wanted to check I understand how Debian expects me to make my configuration changes to Apache.

My understanding is:

To add modules:

  • Install the module using apt-get
  • Enable the module using a2enmod

To add Virtual Hosts:

  • Create a separate configuration file for each virtual host (preferably named similarly to the virtual host’s intended domain name) in /etc/apache2/sites-available/
  • Enable the site using the a2ensite command

 To do anything else:

  • Create a separate configuration file for each configuration task in /etc/apache2/conf.d/. All files in this directory are included by default.

I’m basing this on http://www.control-escape.com/web/configuring-apache2-debian.html, and /usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common/README.Debian.gz.

Am I understanding this correctly? I’m guessing that editing e.g. apache2.conf directly isn’t a good way to add my own configuration settings, as my changes could be blitzed by an update in the future?

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Not a real question? No comments or edits to suggest how it might be improved? Cheers, very friendly. – Paul D. Waite Mar 23 '11 at 22:47
if you were to edit apache2.conf, your changes would not be 'blitzed on update' since, because the apache2.2-common declares apache2.conf as a conffile, dpkg would preserve your changes upon upgrade. However, httpd.conf is a better place to override stuff from apache2.conf so that apche2.conf can be 'blitzed' in the future. – stew Mar 23 '11 at 23:23
@stew: ah, gotcha. – Paul D. Waite Mar 24 '11 at 0:14
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Yes it's right. Completely right.

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That looks correct to me. The website you reference seems accurate for the Debian configuration environment.

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