Apache - Configure - Config files

Apache2 is configured by placing directives in plain text configuration files.

These directives are separated between the following files and directories:

Filename	Description
apache2.conf	The main Apache2 configuration file. Contains settings that are global to Apache2.
apache2.conf	NOTE:Changes to the main configuration files are only recognized by Apache2 when it is started or restarted.
httpd.conf	Historically the main Apache2 configuration file, named after the httpd daemon. Now the file does not exist. In older versions of Ubuntu the file might be present, but empty, as all configuration options have been moved to the below referenced directories.
conf-available	This directory contains available configuration files. All files that were previously in /etc/apache2/conf.d should be moved to /etc/apache2/conf-available.
conf-enabled	Holds symlinks to the files in /etc/apache2/conf-available. When a configuration file is symlinked, it will be enabled the next time apache2 is restarted.
envvars	File where Apache2 environment variables are set.
mods-available	This directory contains configuration files to both load modules and configure them. Not all modules will have specific configuration files, however.
mods-enabled	Holds symlinks to the files in /etc/apache2/mods-available. When a module configuration file is symlinked it will be enabled the next time apache2 is restarted.
ports.conf	Houses the directives that determine which TCP ports Apache2 is listening on.
sites-available	This directory has configuration files for Apache2 Virtual Hosts. Virtual Hosts allow Apache2 to be configured for multiple sites that have separate configurations.
sites-enabled	Like mods-enabled, sites-enabled contains symlinks to the /etc/apache2/sites-available directory. Similarly when a configuration file in sites-available is symlinked, the site configured by it will be active once Apache2 is restarted.
magic	Instructions for determining MIME type based on the first few bytes of a file.

NOTE: In addition, other configuration files may be added using the Include directive, and wildcards can be used to include many configuration files.

Any directive may be placed in any of these configuration files.

The server also reads a file containing mime document types; the filename is set by the TypesConfig directive, typically via /etc/apache2/mods-available/mime.conf, which might also include additions and overrides, and is /etc/mime.types by default.