<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I am very comfortable with BSD (specifically OS X Server over the last few years) and maintain my current OS X Server primarily via command line, though I like web admin tools as well because I don't always have SSH access and I prefer to not have my impatient typing kill a server. So for the last few years I've been using iTools from Tenon on my Dual G5 server. We are moving to a new XServe Xeon in the next 2 days and I need to migrate the servers/config to that machine. I do not wish to use the Apple supplied servers because they are usually out of date and don't meet my needs. I do not wish to continue using Tenon's iTools for the same reason. I am comfortable building my own servers from source, but its been so long that I'm not completely aware of all the options and I'd rather not recompile apache 50 times because I forgot something. I was told by a friend who maintains Apple's XServes in their IT team that some of those guys are enamored with MacPorts. So great - here I am :)<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Here are the open source servers I run:</DIV><DIV>Apache2 with </DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>mod_SSL</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>mod_auth_dbm</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>PHP5</DIV><DIV>MySQL 5</DIV><DIV>Subversion</DIV><DIV>SFTP</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I would like to add Webmin to the new server since we'd not be using iTools. Right now we have Subversion using svn+ssh access (direct SVN server access), but I'd like to change that to mod_SVN. So add that to the list too :)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So my questions and concerns. With Apache2 we have it use the dbm for all authentication instead of htaccess or OS X accounts. I'd like to move our SFTP over to using the same dbm instead of OS X accounts like it is now. And I definitely want MySQL 5 running as an x64 binary. The rest can run as 32-bit binaries. Of course I'd like to have it all start on startup and run in server mode. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>With all that said, any tips on variants/options to use with MacPorts to set this up properly?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><DIV><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: Segoe UI; font-weight: bold; text-align: right; ">Alex Kac - </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></B></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#808080" face="Segoe UI"><I style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: Segoe UI; font-style: italic; text-align: right; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: Segoe UI; font-style: italic; text-align: right; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: Segoe UI; font-style: italic; text-align: right; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: Segoe UI; font-style: italic; text-align: right; ">President and Founder</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></I></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; text-align: right; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Segoe UI"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#808080"><I style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); 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font-size: 13px; ; font-family: Times; ; text-align: right; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ; font-family: Times; ; text-align: right; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ; font-family: Times; ; text-align: right; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ; font-family: Times; ; text-align: right; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ; font-family: Times; ; text-align: right; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Segoe UI"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: 10px; ; text-align: right; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: 10px; ; text-align: right; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: 10px; ; text-align: right; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: 10px; ; text-align: right; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Segoe UI; 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