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Asked: 2026-06-12T04:32:49+00:00

On a Linux based web server I have Apache2 running and in my current

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On a Linux based web server I have Apache2 running and in my current httpd.conf file I have the following:

Include conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf

In httpd-ssl.conf I manage all of my vhost details. Currently there are ~15 entries in there and I need to add more.

I’d like to have a second file, call it httpd-ssl2.conf that would contain nothing but specific entries in an attempt to help keep things a little more organized.

Are there any reasons not to do this that I should be thinking of?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Are there any reasons not to do this that I should be thinking of?

    Nothing wrong with this. A lot of distributions and installs of Apache do this already. For example, on gentoo’s Apache2, it has these lines in the httpd.conf:

    Include /etc/apache2/modules.d/*.conf
Include /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/*.conf

    And you can create as many ssl or non-ssl vhosts in separate files or all in one file in the /vhosts.d directory. You can organize them any way that you want. If you don’t want to use a *.conf and want to be more explicit (which might be a little safer) you can just add each .conf file explicitly in your httpd.conf:

    Include conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf
Include conf/extra/httpd-ssl2.conf
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