Site does not exist error for a2ensite

Question

I have cmsplus dev under  etc apache2 sites-available with the following code    lt VirtualHost   80 gt      ServerAdmin master server com     ServerName www cmsplus dev     ServerAlias cmsplus dev      DocumentRoot  var www cmsplus dev public      LogLevel warn     ErrorLog  var www cmsplus dev log error log     CustomLog  var www cmsplus dev log access log combined  lt  VirtualHost gt    Now when I use sudo  usr sbin a2ensite cmsplus dev  I am getting the error   ERROR  Site cmsplus dev does not exist    My webserver Apache 2 4 6  Ubuntu   How to solve this issue

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You probably updated your Ubuntu installation and one of the updates included the upgrade of Apache to version 2.4.x

In Apache 2.4.x the vhost configuration files, located in the /etc/apache2/sites-available directory, must have the .conf extension.

Using terminal (mv command), rename all your existing configuration files and add the .conf extension to all of them.

mv /etc/apache2/sites-available/cmsplus.dev /etc/apache2/sites-available/cmsplus.dev.conf

If you get a "Permission denied" error, then add "sudo " in front of your terminal commands.

You do not need to make any other changes to the configuration files.

Enable the vhost(s):

a2ensite cmsplus.dev.conf

And then reload Apache:

service apache2 reload

Your sites should be up and running now.

UPDATE: As mentioned here, a Linux distribution that you installed changed the configuration to Include *.conf only. Therefore it has nothing to do with Apache 2.2 or 2.4

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There s another good way  just edit the file apache2 conf theres a line at the end     IncludeOptional sites-enabled   conf   just remove the  conf at the end  like this     IncludeOptional sites-enabled     and restart the server    I tried this only in the Ubuntu 13 10  when I updated it

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Solved the issue by adding  conf extension to site configuration files   Apache a2ensite results in      Error  Site Does Not Exist   Problem  If you found the error while trying to enable a site using   sudo a2ensite example com   but it returns      Error  example com does not exist   a2ensite is simply a Perl script that only works with filenames ending  conf    Therefore  I have to rename my setting file for example com to example com conf as might be achieved as follows    mv  etc apache2 sites-available example com  etc apache2 sites-available example com conf   Success

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Try like this    NameVirtualHost   80  lt VirtualHost   80 gt      ServerAdmin master server com     ServerName www cmsplus dev     ServerAlias cmsplus dev      DocumentRoot  var www cmsplus dev public      LogLevel warn     ErrorLog  var www cmsplus dev log error log     CustomLog  var www cmsplus dev log access log combined  lt  VirtualHost gt    and add entry in  etc hosts  127 0 0 1 www cmsplus dev   restart apache

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Worked after I added  conf to the configuration file

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I realise that s not the case here but it might help someone    Double-check you didn t create the conf file in  etc apache2 sites-enabled by mistake  You get the same error

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I have just upgraded the Ubuntu Server version from 12 04 LTS to 14 04 LTS   Indeed  as said above  the  conf extension to Apache 2 4 x is needed to the websites vhost files that resides on sites-available directory   Before read this question I did not have a clue what was going on with the server    Pretty nice solution   Just summarizing I did the following steps on Terminal   1  Access sites-enabled folder    cd  etc apache2 sites-enabled   2  Because the command a2dissite will not work with deprecated files  without  conf  remove the old website files that was published    sudo rm  lt my-old-website-without- conf gt    3  Rename the website vhost files changing its extension adding  conf to the end    sudo mv  etc apache2 sites-available mywebsite  etc apache2 sites-available mywebsite conf   4  Republish the new and correct vhost file    sudo a2ensite mywebsite conf   5  Check the website on browser and have fun

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So     quickest way is rename site config names ending in   conf    mv  etc apache2 sites-available mysite  etc apache2 sites-available mysite conf  a2ensite mysite conf   other notes on previous comments    IncludeOptional wasn t introduced until apache 2 36 - making change above followed by restart on 2 2 will leave your server down  also  version 2 2 a2ensite can t be hacked as described   as well  since your sites-available file is actually a configuration file  it should be named that way anyway      In general do not restart services   webservers are one type of service     folks can t find them if they are not running  Think linux not MS Windows     Servers can run for many years - live update  reload config  etc   The cloud doesn t mean you have to restart to load a configuration file    When changing configuration of a service use  reload  not  restart   restart stops the service then starts service - if there is a any problem in your change to the config  the service will not restart  reload will give an error but the service never shuts down giving you a chance to fix the config error which could only be bad syntax    debian or ubunto  service-name for this thread is apache2   service  service-name   start   stop   reload       other os s left as an excersize for the reader

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In my case with Ubuntu 14 04 3 and Apache 2 4 7  the problem was that I copied site1 conf to make site2 conf available  and by copying  something happend and I could not a2ensite site2 conf with the error described in thread   The solution for me  was to rename site2 conf to site2 and then again rename site2 to site2 conf  After that I was able to a2ensite site2 conf

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I just had the same problem  I d say it has nothing to do with the apache conf   a2ensite must have changed - line 532 is the line that enforces the  conf suffix   else        dir       sites        sffx       conf        reload    reload       If you change it to   else        dir       sites         sffx       conf        sffx              reload    reload          it will work without any suffix   Of course you wouldn t want to change the a2ensite script  but changing the conf file s suffix is the correct way   It s probably just a way of enforcing the   conf -suffix

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