diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index 25e09c09..dcaead7c 100644
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -21,19 +21,11 @@ Don't forget to restart postgres for the change to take effect!
 
     sudo -u postgres /usr/share/davical/dba/create-database.sh
 
-3. Create an Apache vhost config (e.g. from examples/apache-davical.conf),
+3. Review and activate the default Apache config ('a2ensite davical'),
 or symlink /usr/share/davical/htdocs somewhere below an existing vhost's
 document root.
 
-4. Create /etc/davical/config.php containing at least the lines
-
-    <?php
-      $c->pg_connect[] = 'dbname=davical user=davical_app';
-    ?>
-
-See example-config.php and the other config snippets in the examples
-directory, as well as the DAViCal website and wiki, for a wealth of
-possible customizations.
+4. Customize /etc/davical/config.php if you want.
 
 5. Point your browser to /setup.php (or wherever you symlinked the
 htdocs directory in step 3), log in as user admin with the password
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index fa27b2eb..e786f712 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Uploaders: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>,
  Florian Schlichting <fsfs@debian.org>
 Standards-Version: 3.9.8
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
+ dh-exec,
  libawl-php (>= 0.57-1~), libawl-php (<< 0.58),
  gettext,
  php-apigen,
diff --git a/debian/davical.dirs b/debian/davical.dirs
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a3df928..00000000
--- a/debian/davical.dirs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-etc/davical/
diff --git a/debian/davical.install b/debian/davical.install
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 9c790fb8..2969c4a8
--- a/debian/davical.install
+++ b/debian/davical.install
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
+#! /usr/bin/dh-exec
 dba htdocs inc locale   usr/share/davical
+config/apache-davical.conf => etc/apache2/sites-available/davical.conf
+config/example-config.php  => etc/davical/config.php
 config/*                usr/share/doc/davical/examples
 scripts/*.php           usr/share/davical/scripts
 scripts/davical-cli     usr/share/davical/scripts
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index b64fd8d3..1f5dc827 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -16,4 +16,6 @@ override_dh_auto_build:
 override_dh_installchangelogs:
 	dh_installchangelogs ChangeLog
 	rm debian/davical/usr/share/davical/htdocs/.htaccess || true
+	rm -f debian/davical/usr/share/doc/davical/examples/apache-davical.conf \
+	      debian/davical/usr/share/doc/davical/examples/example-config.php