> We're talking about running a stack of small quixote apps on a server
> using virtualhosts on Apache 2 (one name per app) to avoid the
> tangled mess of ports you get if you proxypass a whole bunch of (for
> example) quixote / twisted apps.

You may want to take a look at Dulcinea
(http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/dulcinea/), it has nice
site-management utilities for managing port configuration of multiple
sites in one place.

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Ksenia