Re: apache2 what is the standard way to enable modules?

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:

> a2enmod takes a simple name like "cgi" not a name with .load or .conf
> on the end like "cgi.load".  You want "a2enmod cgi" without the
> ".load" on the end.

Yeah, I finally got that part.  

But still not seeing what is bad about what I did... after all it did
allow the cgi scripts to start working:

>From a previous post:

>> Thanks for the push... Tinkering with your suggestion lead me to read
>> the `LoadModule' lines on the files in mods-available.
>> 
>> The line in cgi.load:
>>   LoadModule cgi_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_cgi.so
>> 
>> Looked the most promising, so I tried:
>> 
>>    a2enmod cgi.load
>> 
>> But it told me my MPM(?) seemed to be threaded so it gave me `cgid.conf'
>> and `cgid.load'... and away it went... cgi firing on all 8 cylinders.

That last bit was sort of warning I guess and the it proceeded to
create the needed symlinks only with cgid.* in there names.

After that command above, cgi scripts commenced to working.  Apparently the
command figured out what needed to be done. 

So, anyway... now I know a better and more appropriate command to use.

Thanks to all.