One of those moments you get every so often. I fixed the problem without realising it... This brings up several more interesting problems.
1) Webmin is still reporting it is running from Apache 1.3 yet every other indicator says Apache 2 is running.
Could Webmin be reading the information from the default configuration files instead of probing Apache directly?
Could I use Webmin to point to the MAMP configuration files instead?
If so would this mean Apache 2 would start by default instead of Apache 1.3? Specifically, no start-up script needed...
By changing the Apache module configuration in Webmin, could I accidentally "mangle" the system?
Now I KNOW everything is running, would a reinstall of Webmin be appropriate or should I go through the manual alteration I mentioned earlier?
Is there a better administration program than Webmin? I suppose I could ssh in to the machine but everything is collected into one spot with Webmin.
2) I wanted to check out the system web page (http://192.168.x.y) after some changes and it no longer comes up.
When I wanted to see if I could get a "<?php phpinfo() ?>" script running I renamed some file in the system area. The default web page no longer comes up. How would I get it back? Yes the files were renamed back to the way they were and restarting the server didn't do anything.
Suppose I wanted a different system page. How would I set it up in MAMP? Normally I would have an index.html or index.php in the system directory.
3) As it is, all the web pages are stored under the MAMP directory.
This is not such a big deal since in the preferences I can specify another location. However I might like to have different users on the machine at a later date. Is there a way to specify multiple directories? I suppose I could edit some of the files manually if I had to. Comparing this with Ubuntu server, the process should be trivial if I knew where to look.
I would like to remove the "/MAMP" from all URLs pointing to the server. How? I haven't found a method of doing so yet. The closest thing I found is messing around with the hosts file and a number of problems were pointed out at that point.
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At that point I think the Mac could be said to be the equivalent to Ubuntu server... The process isn't difficult. It's just a matter of how you know where you are in the process. I'll start playing around with the Apache module in Webmin when I'm a little more awake. No need to risk making dumb mistakes.
Later Mike