How can I take a server with several Apache VirtualHosts, and add Drupal from Ubuntu "aptitude install drupal7"?

Question

I have a server that has several Apache VirtualHosts, and I want to add Drupal. I see that my installing drupal7 (under Ubuntu Raring on an EC2 host) let Drupal set up camp in /usr/share/drupal7. What I'm not as sure of is how to add a VirtualHost for Drupal without disturbing the existing sites.

At https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Drupal, the last command before restarting Apache2 is:

sudo cp /etc/drupal/7/apache2.conf /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/drupal.conf

I haven't run this, partially because I don't know globally if this means "Start over on a Drupal host."

How can I add an additional VirtualHost that will be Drupal-driven while leaving existing sites untouched?

Answer 1

Don't do this, this is against the way Apache is configured on Debian-derived systems.

If you look into apache2.conf, it will add a global alias /drupal7 pointing to /usr/share/drupal7 and set a few options for this directory for all configured vhosts.

Unless you want a /drupal7 alias on your vhosts, all this should be done inside the configuration for a virtual host and not just dropped into some config directory.

If you indeed want this for all vhosts, you should put this file into /etc/apache2/conf.d instead of mod-enabled which should only contain symlinks to mod-available and activate Apache binary modules.