ADMINISTER APACHE WITH THE APACHE TOOLBOX

One of the great benefits to using Apache for your Web server is that it's extremely versatile and extensible. In fact, there are a lot of different modules available for Apache that extend its capabilities.

Some modules come with Apache, but most do not. And while your particular Linux distribution may prepackage some of these modules, it's not
likely that they prepackage them all. The big ones, such as mod_ssl, mod_php, and perhaps mod_perl, may ship with your distribution, but what if you want to use a smaller and more obscure module like mod_gzip or mod_auth_ldap?

Ordinarily, you'd have to download the source for this new module and go through a somewhat tiring process of rebuilding the module against your current version of Apache, or even rebuilding Apache entirely. However, with the Apache Toolbox, you'll never have to do that again.
http://www.apachetoolbox.com/

The Apache Toolbox uses a suite of scripts to obtain the necessary modules and components that are required to build your custom Apache server. It gives you a nice console menu system to select the modules you want to include in your custom Apache server, retrieves the appropriate files, and configures Apache for you.

Once this is done, all you need to do is run the traditional "make; make install" to build Apache. Then you'll have all the bells and whistles you could possibly want in a Web server.