[Semantic Mike]

Does anybody know if there is a decent front end or pref panel for administering Apache in OSX Client. I know Tenon iTools exists but it's very expensive. I'm looking for something similar to OSX Server's admin tool, allowing me to set up virtual domains etc.

[quadgrande]

There's http://www.webmin.com. But I imagine the setup for this product would be over and above that for Apache itself.

/etc/httpd/httpd.conf (Apache's config file) isn't too complicated. For virtual hosts (name based), there's an example at the very end of the file. Just uncomment it and add your own section like:

NameVirtualHost *:80

and for each virtual site:

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName www.<NAME>.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/htdocs
ErrorLog logs/path/to/error_log
CustomLog logs/path/to/access_log common
</VirtualHost>


There are other parameters you can place in the Virtual host tags. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/index.html

After you edit httpd.conf, you need to restart Apache, either by stopping and starting in System Preferences, or by using "apachectl" in /usr/sbin like:

/usr/sbin/apachectl restart

as the root user.

[mitchell_pgh]

I would buy OS X server... you pay, but you get a ton of nice GUI tools for other things as well... I also love the fact that they add Squirlmail pre installed.

[FraiseTagada]

You should visit

http://www.serverlogistics.com/

You will find the complete Apache 2 DL with a pref pane, etc...

[Semantic Mike]

Thanks for all the advice. Much appreciated!