Prevent Apache from starting after apt-get install

Solution 1:

Try this:

1. Create a file /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d with following content:

#!/bin/sh  
exit 101

2. Make it executable:

chmod +x /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d

After this, all packages will be installed but the services will not start.

Once you are done, you can remove the file:

rm -f /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d

Solution 2:

Lots of options:

1. Move the closed source content out of /var/www
2. Change the permissions on that content such that the apache user cannot read it
3. Iptables to stop port 80/443 traffic
4. Pass a runlevel environment variable to apt-get:

sudo RUNLEVEL=1 apt-get install apache2