apacheconf - An easy to use Apache web server configuration utility

Authors:
  Philipp Knirsch <pknirsch@redhat.com>
  Jonathan Blandford <jrb@redhat.com>


Overview
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In order for newcomers to configure an Apache web server without too much
hazle we have put together this nice little tool.

It is based on a newly developed base component called alchemist. The
alchemist is the backend which to put it in simple terms manages all
configurations in a tool independant manner and is capable of handling and
merging multiple XML based configurations. Apacheconf simply uses it as a
storage and data handling backend.

Apacheconf itself is a Python 1.5 program using the pygtk, pygnome and
pygnome-libglade to do the whole UI work.

With apacheconf you can edit your 



Design
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In order to separate the different modules we have differentiated everything
in the following order:

  UI                                Glade 

  UI Interface                    ApacheConf

  UI <-> Gizmo Interface        ApacheControl  

  Gizmo <-> Base Interface       ApacheGizmo 

  Base <-> Alchemist Interface   ApacheBase

  Data storage                    Alchemist


The idea was to have the middleware part (ApacheControl, ApacheGizmo and
ApacheBase) separated in two parts: One part for the frontend (GUI), the other
for the backend (Alchemist).