On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Randy Terbush wrote: > Just a few points to start a discussion here: > > It seems that it is time that some thought go into an interface > that is more politically correct. :-) Hopefully this list will > allow us to come to some consensus as to what the tools/hooks > should be to make it easy for interface developers to communicate > with the server.
Agreed. I think the goal should be to develop a product that it just a easy to use, if not more so, than the interfaces that are already out there for other httpd server software, while maintaining our Prime directive of Cross platform compatibility. > In previous side discussions, some of the following possibilities > have been suggested as methods to accomplish our goals. That goal > being a way to safely communicate configuration and status issues > to the Apache webserver. > > - SNMP > - LDAP > - others? I do not know what IIS uses but I know that Netscape enterprise server has a web front end for the majority of its configuration items. This is generally just a httpd attached to a different port of the machine. I think it could be completely stable if we ran a seperate httpd process all together (with stripped out config files, and only one child process) that is attached to some port of the machine other than 80 and is dedicated to modifying the main server config files and re-huping the daemon. The one httpd would have to run under root and only root though.. > Storage of the config info could move to: > - Berkeley DB 2.0 > - SQL > - others? I Think that part of our goal is to maintain the existing simplicity of the apache config files (they copied the NCSA httpd config file format), and to use this as a standard.. there is not reason why we can't just part these files for the info we need. All our program needs to know then is the location of the servers main httpd.conf file. ______________________________________________________________________________ Matthew J. Probst | Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station Sys. Programmer, BYU CS Dept |wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -Andrew Tanenbaum
