Re: Directory enabled web server anyone?

[Jeff Clowser <jclowser@aerotek.com>]

Just looked on apache.perl.org - there is reference
to an apache mod there called configLDAP.  I haven't
looked at it, but it sounds like it may be what you
are looking for with apache.  Saw the reference to
it, but could not find the module itself...

> >What I'm interested in, is other systems that are fully configured
> >from an LDAP directory. Say, a web server that on starting up
> >needs only to know the name of its configuration server, and
> >some credentials with which to bind. Which can then accept
> >http requests, use LDAP to figure out how to resolve the request,
> >probably with some kind of caching for performance, and then serve
> >up a response. The information held in LDAP might include, the
> >domain name of the web server, the location of the data to be
> >served, access control rules and file name extension to MIME
> >type mappings. Basically everything that the web server needs
> >to know to perform its function, thus placing all of the configuration
> >for web services in one central place (possibly replicated and
> >distributed).
> >
> >So, does anyone have any pointers, ideas, thoughts on this they'd
> >like to share?

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