John Clements's questions

I'm migrating an apache configuration from a Red Hat machine to a Debian machine, and the source configuration uses directives in its site configurations. Debian clearly has opinions about how configuration files should be structured; sites go in sites-available, mods go in mods-available, etc. So... where should files "Include"d by site files go? I could make an "include" subdirectory of /etc/apache2, and I think that's where I'm headed now, but that doesn't feel like I'm playing by the debian rules, exactly.

EDIT: I've now been and read README.Debian, and ... well, it seems to suggest the tactic of putting files in conf-available but being careful not to enable them with a2enconf, because then they'll be included by default at the global level. That scares me, and I'm frankly still inclined to make my own include directory, just to prevent an accidental a2enconf.

Opinions/Advice appreciated!

I'm working with a fresh Debian Squeeze install from Linode, and it looks like hostname behaves differently (from lenny) in a way that makes certain other packages unhappy. Viz:

clements@debian:/tmp/npm$ hostname -A
li228-113.members.linode.com 
clements@debian:/tmp/npm$ hostname -f
hostname: Name or service not known
clements@debian:/tmp/npm$ 

This behavior differs from an older (lenny) installation, where hostname -f does not signal an error. Reading the man page suggests to me that squeeze isn't a big fan of the -f option since machines can have multiple fqdns. That's fine with me, but packages like make-ssl-cert get crabby about it:

Setting up ssl-cert (1.0.28) ...
hostname: Name or service not known
make-ssl-cert: Could not get FQDN, using "debian".
make-ssl-cert: You may want to fix your /etc/hosts and/or DNS setup and run
make-ssl-cert: make-ssl-cert generate-default-snakeoil --force-overwrite
make-ssl-cert: again.

I'm hesitant to edit /etc/hosts; this wasn't required on my lenny VPS, and I have the feeling that it shouldn't be required here either.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.