GUI for Sendmail and Apache

[Pete Nesbitt]

On December 30, 2004 10:08 am, Dan Burchfield wrote:
> Hello all!
>  Does anyone know of a GUI program to do simple admin of Sendmail and
> Apache on Red Hat? Thanks

Hi Dan,
I don't know about one for sendmail, but RH comes with a gui for apache. It is  
redhat-config-httpd [or possibly service-config-httpd(?) or 
fedora-config-httpd(?) depending on rh/fedora release]. You can call it as 
root from the command line or in the KDE menu system settings -> server 
settings -> http

You should be aware that (at least with this particular tool), it will really 
doctor the httpd config file making manual maintenance a real pain. So if you 
(or anyone else) will never ever want to manually work on the web daemon 
configuration, go ahead and use it, but I would recommend you learn to 
manually configure it (http://httpd.apache.org) instead. You may want to use 
the tool to get online, but later replace it with traditional configuration 
file. AFAICR, it only changes /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

I think it's the same for firewall & dns tools (redhat-config-securitylevel & 
redhat-config-bind-gui), not much of as learning tools. It would be nice to 
see a frontend that would be as useful learning to see how things work as it 
is to set up the environment. It seems too many of these utilities impair 
their use as a learning tool because you are left with either different files 
or different file formats than are typically in use so you can't use the 
tools to help you learn the process of implementing and customizing 
services :(
-- 
Pete Nesbitt, rhce