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 I do not wish to use the Apple supplied servers because they are usually out of date and don't meet my needs.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 :) Here are the open source servers I run: Apache2 with mod_SSL mod_auth_dbm PHP5 MySQL 5 Subversion SFTP 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 :) 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. With all that said, any tips on variants/options to use with MacPorts to set this up properly? Alex Kac - President and Founder Web Information Solutions, Inc. - Microsoft Certified Partner "The person who is not hungry says that the coconut has a hard shell." -- African Tribal Saying