Re: apache2 what is the standard way to enable modules?
On 23/09/14 at 10:02am, Harry Putnam wrote:
> 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:
Played with this by myself and yes, a2enmod also works if you add .load to the module
name.
>
> >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.
>
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