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ApacheConf
Sergey Zimin writes "ApacheConf is a shell for configuring Apache web servers, that will help you to tune the main configuration file httpd.conf. ApacheConf presents all the information in the file httpd.conf in a structured view. All of the server's directives are grouped by categories (Global parameters, Main server's parameters, Directories, Virtual hosts, etc) and all these groups are represented as a tree. Therefore you can see the entire structure of the server at a glance and you can easily manage all of the server's directives, as well as the directories and virtual hosts. You save time, as you don't have to use notepad for configuring your server! ApacheConf has advanced description all of the server's directives and parameters. It will help the beginner to quickly master the Apache server. For the experienced user it will become an indispensable administrative tool."
- Runs on WINDOWS ONLY
- Comes as crippleware - costs $19.95 to actually make it usable
Talk about a waste of effort.What is this notepad thing? Why would I use paper to configure my web server? Am I suppose to then copy the config from paper into my editor of choice?
You know... this actually brings back memories. I developed an interest in programming before I had convenient access to a computer. I would write my programs on paper at home and then transcribe them onto the computer at school.
Steve
Am I wrong or does this appear to be a windows only program? If it is I give them credit for their effort but they are really missing the target audience.
Although most Linux/Unix users are used to editing files by hand with vi and windows users are used to using point and click gui's. Nothing wrong with that. It just seems to be like that most of the time.
Snoozer.
ApacheConf looks pretty complete from the screenshots but I just wanted to mention that there is an alternative open source gui configuration tool for Apache called Comanche which works on a number of platforms.
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> You save time, as you don't have to use notepad for configuring your server!
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Notepad! Shurely shome mistake? All web admins use vi, everyone knows that
Experienced users don't use Microsoft Windows.
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Ok, so the search engines have to disclose paid results, right?
Should that apply here as well? This is simply an advertisement for windows shareware software.
That's right, it doesn't run on any other OS, and you have 30 days to pay up.
I could see someone using it for remote administration, assuming the directory with the conf file has a windows share (right!), but it's not worth the money for a simple non-production windows apache server.
-Adam
First we have big ass adverts appearing below articles. Now we've got adverts appearing in the guise of articles.
When are the pop-unders going to start?
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Well first off slashdot isn't a search engine, second I doubt slashdot is getting any money for posting the link.
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Sergey Zimin is the author.
-techwolf
I don't do this for karma, I do it for cash. It's much better.
thanks for the info
tof
Another tool is ApacheToolbox.
I agree with you. Editing by hand is the way to go.
Just my $0.04 (adjusted for inflation)
You know you guys shouldnt rag on stuff like this so much. Although I would rather see something like this open source or at least available free of charge, this is a start.
I for one would like to see Apache start to eat into some of the marketshare of IIS on Windows servers. Without tools like this that make it possible for monkeys to run web servers, that will never happen...
The person who posted this must surely be the owner/a developer of this!
S D are soo much better!
First its for M$ Windows, umm windows is crap Linux/OpenBSD/Solaris/HP-UX/AIX/IRIX/FreeBSD/NetB
Second Notepad?? ROTFLMAO No one even uses windows notepad (windows notepad sucks bad)
"With Microsoft, you get Windows. With Linux, you get the full house" - unknown
It seems to me that if you cant spend 20 mins reading and configuring apache from httpd.conf, then u shouldn't be running a webserver at all, as its completely "idiot proof". Additionally what the heck is it doing as a windows only app? If it were a *nix proggy or even OSX then that might make a bit more sense. I think it best that i stop here before i start ranting about the evil empire and whatnot..
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I don't understand. What exactly is it that the janitors do all day? Surely one competent person could quite easily maintain the entire site.
How hard is it to read through a submission queue, check links, and post relevant stories?
Well I decided to download and all I can say is: ROTFLMAO. It takes long while to load on my 1.2GHz Celeron and once your in it theres not much you can do in it! Its just a dumb text editor with lameo stuff for editing apache.
"With Microsoft, you get Windows. With Linux, you get the full house" - unknown
Tried it with a small httpd.conf, half of the options in it disappear! Heres the 'small' one I used:
HostnameLookups off
User nobody
Group #-1
ServerAdmin you@your.address
ServerRoot "@@ServerRoot@@"
ErrorLog logs/error_log
LogLevel warn
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent
CustomLog logs/access_log common
PidFile logs/httpd.pid
ScoreBoardFile logs/apache_runtime_status
#ServerName new.host.name
ServerSignature on
UseCanonicalName on
Timeout 300
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 15
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
StartServers 5
MaxClients 150
MaxRequestsPerChild 30
"With Microsoft, you get Windows. With Linux, you get the full house" - unknown
I will never understand what people have against editing plain old text config files. You can use ANY text aditor without having to learn someone else's idea of a good UI, you have all the command line tools available to you (grep!), it's flexible, it works over pretty much any speed link on a text only display, you can add comments of your own, comment out lines you may want to use again later, etc.
orlando....
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