Re: [squid-users] Re: Web-based configurator???

Paul Johnson wrote:
> squidie wrote:
>
>> Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>>> lör 2007-01-13 klockan 16:29 +0200 skrev squidie:
>>>
>>>> I wonder if there is any solution to configure squid via a web-based
>>>> interface? I know about Webmin. What else???
>>> There probably isn't very much else worth mentioning.
>>>
>>>> I don't want to install Webmin (complex application for managing *nix
>>>> configuration). I just want to install squid and run it (even without
>>>> `squid -z` command - squid can create cache dirs if there are none - it
>>>> should be so I think). After I ran it I may go to http://localhost:3128/
>>>> and configure it via a web-based configurator included in squid.
>>>> Did anybody think about that???
>>> Think yes, spent time on implementing no.
>>>
>>> Whats wrong with using webmin with only the Squid module enabled?
>> I like all-in-one soft - I don't like installing ten applications (and
>> probably getting some troubles with them) when I can install one
>> self-sufficient. So you say nobody was trying to implement it?
>
> The problem with that is it tends to make things work *worse* and much more
> difficult to debug than if you used 10 or 12 smaller programs that do one
> thing and one thing well, stringing them together with pipes and whatnot to
> achieve your goal than the opposite approach of one program that does 10 or
> 12 things really poorly.
>
>
> .
>
I know about *nix strategy "few small programs do work better than one
big program a 'swiss knife'" (smth like that). But as I see nobody tried
to compare squid + webmin and squid with included web-based
configurator. I think it's possible to make squid better (with the
configurator) and not to make it less stable.
Received on Sun Jan 14 2007 - 07:26:10 MST