Re: Apache Server and Linux

[awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>I was wondering if there is somthing to manage the Apache server 
>like a interface or GUI like MS has for their IIS. I used Webmen 
>to manage our Linux (before we had to kill them) and it was pretty 
>nice. I am not familar with writting scripts so I was hoping for 
>a user friendly interface to run this task. Is there somthing out 
>there that manages Apache like Webmen did for the Linux box itself.

For administrating the server there are modules for both LinuxConf
and Webmin.  I'd try Webmin first as I've had pretty lousy results
with LinuxConf, and Webmin looks smarter.  There are some Webmin
users on this list too.  There is also a project at:
			http://gui.apache.org
to develop a conprehensive GUI admin system for apache.  I don't
know what the status is, but at a glance it might be worth
investigating.

For "application" development it depends upon your enviroment of
choice:  	For Java there is the Enhydra application server.
		For Python there is the Zope appliaction server.
		For PHP there is the Midgard server.

I started all my PHP apps without using any IDE/appliaction server
architecture, because I thought it was just going to be a little
project,  now with over 300 files I really wish I had used one. But
converting to one later looks pretty daunting.

For just static HTML pages, it seems like local composting and then
FTP-ing is really the simplest solution, and with a nice FTP client
like Igloo it's quite simple.  Freshmeat has dozens if not hundreds
of HTML composting tools.

I hope this answers some of your questions.