The file is automatically created. In this case the problem is that you are missing the course name (/opt/webwork/courses/courseName/simple.conf) in the path. Usually this is a variable $courseName and is defined first in webwork.apache-config and then used in global.conf.
Hope this helps point the way.
-- Mike
Installation
simple.conf
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