fastest way to update /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/(virtual server).conf for all websites when changing to mpm-event

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hi guys,
i have just completed the change from mpm-prefork to mpm-event in debian.

After making the changes and enabling mpm-event, of course apache would not restart, due to the sites-enabled conf file for each virtual server containing the following entry… “php_admin_value engine off”

say for example the following sites existed

  • /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/site1.conf
  • /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/site2.conf
  • /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/site3.conf

I went in and manually edited each file, however, what is a faster way?

What if one had hundreds of websites on a server?

Does this happen because i disabled rather than removed/uninstalled the old configuration used by the default apache installation?

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Howdy,

You can mass change config files using tools like Perl or sed.

One example of how to do that would be a command like this:

perl -pi -e 's/php_admin_value/#php_admin_value/g' /path/to/files/*.conf

That will look for all instances of “php_admin_value” in those .conf files, and place a “#” mark in front of them.

Of course, before making any changes like that, be sure to back up all those config files!

-Eric

3

Awesome, thanks Eric.