I've been reading the discussions for a while now ... sure, a lot of good ideas ... but many of you out there - IMHO - go too far with planing and designing ... for the user, the main principle should be KISS ... keep it small and simple ... why mess around with lots of add-ons (database, etc.), Java (lots of class files and stuff) and extra admin servers and snmp ... that would just be extra stuff for the user to install - and even possibly buy - that just makes the project more complicated ...
Why not just keep it plain CGI (easy to port), add a couple of gfx and use the server side to access plain flat files ... we're talking about server CONFIGURATION mainly, not administration ... the latter may be a nice add-on later, but the main goal should be an easy to use interface to Apache configuration ... compile it, run "make install", start up httpd and configure the whole server ... Just my 2 cents ... -gg
