Le [Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:15:32 -0400 (EDT)], Mark Imbriaco ecrivait : > > (1) : Web-based > Web-based front-ends do not rule-out a telnet driven back-end > API.
Sure, that's what I meant with "the underlaying protocol" ... > > should be obtained via the 'info module' and passed as-is to the GUI > > as text ... > I disagree. I think we can build a list of directives, and > create a simple interface to add directives. If you look at > what a directive is made up of you get (basically): > directive name > number of arguments > scope (whole server, per-directory, virtualhost, etc.) I agree, you are absolutly right on this point ... but all I proposed was a simple way to fetch the new parameters automagically ... > > (5) : have it done in C > Personally, I'd lean towards coding it in perl, but that's > just a general preference. Again, if we use the telnet server > backend, people can use whatever languages they like to make > frontends. Not every people want to install perl on their machines ... and if you use ch-rooted environment (this is my case), I'd rather use a self-sufficient language, with no need of external libs, path settings, ... Since you'll give the GUI C code with the server (for example in a folder like support/gui), it's not really a problem ... > The way I see it, the best way would be to have the server > (preferably telnet reachable) control the configuration, and > store the configuration in whatever internal format it likes > (dbm, sql, whatever) but have a command to generate standard > apache configuration files from that internal data. At that > point, it just a matter of using the interface to switch > around the values, regenerate the conf files, and kickstart > the server. Yes, but if your db files get corrupted, you cannot restore the configuration files ... anyway, a plain text configuration file is very easy to parse (as you mentionned before, the typology of configuration commands is very simple) Regards, Pierre-Yves =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Pierre-Yves KEREMBELLEC Phone # +33 1 46 12 67 50 VTCOM Fax # +33 1 46 12 67 00 40, rue Gabriel Crie E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] 92245 Malakoff Cedex, France Systemes et Reseaux =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
