Apache2 Module installed but not loaded

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I came across a customer recently that had a module installed on their apache2 installation, but they couldn’t understand why it wasn’t loaded. In this case it was the filter module.

[root@box ~]# yum provides /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_filter.so
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, replace
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
drivesrvr                                                                                                                                                                                                            | 2.2 kB     00:00
httpd-2.2.15-59.el6.centos.x86_64 : Apache HTTP Server
Repo        : base
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_filter.so



httpd24u-2.4.27-1.ius.centos6.x86_64 : Apache HTTP Server
Repo        : ius
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_filter.so



httpd-2.2.15-60.el6.centos.4.x86_64 : Apache HTTP Server
Repo        : updates
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_filter.so



httpd-2.2.15-60.el6.centos.4.x86_64 : Apache HTTP Server
Repo        : installed
Matched from:
Other       : Provides-match: /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_filter.so


You can activated it by adding following line to httpd.conf;

It was simple to install just throw this in your httpd.conf

LoadModule filter_module modules/mod_filter.so

Job done.