That is almost identical to what I discovered independently. I read every active .conf file in entirety to realize this.
I was on the assumption that from a web client perspective, a2dissite on all sites had the same effect as stopping apache, essentially forcing it idle. It appears that a2dissite doesn't really truly take all sites offline, but instead defaults to a precompiled string for the document root. That seems to invite a hazardous situation, say for example a user is virtual hosting n sites and uses a directory structure inside /var/www/ such as: /var/www/www.example.com /var/www/www.example1.com /var/www/www.example2.com and then believes that running a2dissite on all these, perhaps to make a backup of a php-encrusted website (such as mine) that the document root will default to the top level of all these sites and perhaps reveal SQL passwords in the process. I hope this is not true... > On 01/12/17 15:39, Timothy D Legg wrote: > >> To be much more explicit, this is a conf file located in >> /etc/apache2/sites-available and is the only file symlinked into >> /etc/apache2/sites-enabled > It is most likely included into /etc/apache2/apache2.conf or > /etc/apache2/httpd.conf . Which most likely contains `Include > ports.conf` which contains line `Listen 80`. Since no virtual host or > DocumentRoot is defined for this port, most likely server uses compiled > in value of DocumentRoot, which is most likely /var/www/html . Also, > main conf most likely contains several `Require all ...` lines which > affect all virtual hosts. > > -- > > With Best Regards, > Marat Khalili > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
