These configuration parameters control the core Apache features, and are always available. ... Context: server config, virtual host . ... This feature can be disabled using: AccessConfig /dev/null Historically, this file only contained <Directory> sections; in fact it can now contain any server directive allowed in the server config context. ... The default is in the ServerRoot directory, however since this should not be writable by the user the server runs as, core dumps won't normally get written. ...