Apache features additional modules that can be installed that will extend its functionality. These modules can provide additional features such as adding support for Python or PHP. Ubuntu's implementation of Apache includes two specific commands for enabling and disabling mods, a2enmod
and a2dismod
, respectively. Apache modules are generally installed via packages from Ubuntu's repositories. To see a list of modules available for Apache, run the following command:
aptitude search libapache2-mod
In case you don't have aptitude
installed, you can instead run the following command:
apt-cache search libapache2-mod
Within the results, you'll see various module packages available, such as libapache2-python
(which adds Python support) and libapache2-mod-php7.0
(which adds PHP 7 support), among many others. Installing an Apache module is done the same way as any other package, with the apt-get
or aptitude
commands. In the case of PHP support, we can install the...