How To: Enable apache modules under Debian based system -- page 2

2. Adding modules:

Now, taking into account the strucutre of apache, it is pretty easy to add modules to be loaded by apache. Let's assume that you want to add mime_magic module. To do so, you can either:

• add it by hand:
  

  $cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
  $ sudo ln -s ../mods-available/mime_magic.conf mime_magic.conf
  $sudo ln -s ../mods-available/mime_magic.load mime_magic.load

  OR

• add it the debian way with a2enmod:
  

  $sudo a2enmod
  Which module would you like to enable?
  Your choices are: actions asis auth_anon auth_dbm auth_digest auth_ldap cache cern_meta cgid cgi dav_fs dav deflate disk_cache expires ext_filter file_cache headers imap include info ldap mem_cache mime_magic php5 proxy_connect proxy_ftp proxy_http proxy rewrite speling ssl suexec unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias
  Module name? mime_magic
  Module mime_magic installed; run /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload to enable.

That's it, your module will now be loaded next time you start apache. You can actually avoid restarting apache, by asking it to simply reload its configuration:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

And here you go, your new added module is included in apache.