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Life & fun · March 7, 2019

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An alternative to Apache / Nginx config hell

Concept wireframes: https://imgur.com/a/Qyvq5HF HN, I've been chronically frustrated by how challenging it is to configure nginx and Apache config files. I had the idea for a simple, intuitive interface that could automatically generate and manage htaccess and SitesAvailable files. Does anyone think it would be worthwhile for me to build this?

An alternative to Apache / Nginx config hell launched on March 7, 2019 with 8 votes, #1,237 of 2,994 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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