CODEWITHSUNDEEP
linuxapachecentos
user1032531
user1032531

Reputation: 26311

How does Apache know which file to use in /etc/httpd/conf.d?

I installed https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-recipes/tree/master/install/centos.

One of the steps was to delete /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf (actually rename to ssl.conf.bak), and add a new gitlab.conf file.

How does Apache know which file to use in /etc/httpd/conf.d? I would have thought that I would have had to edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, and specify the file, but this does not appear to be the case. Does Apache just use any file with a .conf extension located in /etc/httpd/conf.d/? If so, would an error occur if there was more than one?

Upvotes: 10

Views: 27215

Answers (1)

cHao
cHao

Reputation: 86545

It depends on how the server is configured. But it's common to have a line similar to this:

Include conf.d/*.conf

in the main config (or some other config file included by it). That will include all the .conf files in the conf.d directory.

Other groups of files could be set up the same way, by simply adding a similar line(with a different directory name, of course). Ubuntu, for example, has a directory named sites-enabled that contains files to set up the sites active on the server.

Upvotes: 24

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