Re: An interface to Apache

[Andy Rutter]
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| > - should NOT use CGI

as I've said before in an earliler mail today; I find CGI extremely limiting in that it imposes an offline session-by-session way of dealing with your data. I have been developing applications that use this for nearly 4 years now and I have to admit that I have written code that I am downright ashamed of on occasions just to overcome the limitations in CGI.

if we are to create a GUI it should at least be an interactive one. not a session-by-session one.

(did I mention how much I hate the Netscape way of administrating  servers? :-)

| Something like the Netscape admin UI should be our initial target,

I think we can, and should, do a better job than that.

| > - should have a user interface layer that is separated from the

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I agreee.

| > - should be written in a language that actually works

I was trying to say "forget Java". for the server parts I think C is probably the only viable option. Perl might be a solution as a tape-and-chewing-gum solution in the interim, but managers often have a strong distaste for scripting languages like Perl and Tcl. and if this is to be a success we need people to use it.

| In addition, SNMP capability would be useful. I'm running a project

good idea. this could be implemented in a mod_snmp on Apache httpd. and then have either the configuration server or the client (or both) talk to it.

| Some time ago, I made a start on a HTML/CGI admin interface for

you are not alone :-)

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