Installing additional Apache modules

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 ...

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