apache2: /etc/apache2/sites-available is missing on macos

Question

I am trying to configure apache2 so that it communicates with django and I am unable to the 'sites-available' directory where I believe a 'defaults' directory should reside. The following is my file structure under the 'etc/apache2/' directory:

├── extra
│   ├── httpd-autoindex.conf
│   ├── httpd-dav.conf
│   ├── httpd-default.conf
│   ├── httpd-info.conf
│   ├── httpd-languages.conf
│   ├── httpd-manual.conf
│   ├── httpd-mpm.conf
│   ├── httpd-multilang-errordoc.conf
│   ├── httpd-ssl.conf
│   ├── httpd-userdir.conf
│   ├── httpd-vhosts.conf
│   └── proxy-html.conf
├── httpd.conf
├── httpd.conf.bak
├── httpd.conf.pre-update
├── magic
├── mime.types
├── original
│   ├── extra
│   │   ├── httpd-autoindex.conf
│   │   ├── httpd-dav.conf
│   │   ├── httpd-default.conf
│   │   ├── httpd-info.conf
│   │   ├── httpd-languages.conf
│   │   ├── httpd-manual.conf
│   │   ├── httpd-mpm.conf
│   │   ├── httpd-multilang-errordoc.conf
│   │   ├── httpd-ssl.conf
│   │   ├── httpd-userdir.conf
│   │   ├── httpd-vhosts.conf
│   │   └── proxy-html.conf
│   └── httpd.conf
├── other
│   └── php5.conf
└── users
    ├── Guest.conf
    ├── aphexlog.conf
    └── secops.conf

If anyone knows if there is a possibility of a alternative config file with the same properties or some other solution... maybe I am just being dumb but everything that I have found online indicates that I should have this properties file.

Any and all help is appreciated :)

Answer 1

sites-available is a concept from Debian-derived distributions of Linux. MacOS does not have it, and neither do most other Linux flavours.

Instead you need to put your configuration directly in httpd.conf.

(Note, it's unusual to run a production system on a Mac; if you're just doing this for development, you can use the built-in runserver rather than messing around with Apache.)