Yesterday, I installed Apache 2.0.44 and it seems to work fine: it’s a little opaque when it fails to start up. There’s a little monitor app that serves the same purpose as apachectl, but it be nice if it would echo the output of the errors: as it stands, you have to look in the error log while pushing the start/restart buttons. Kind of silly . . . .
I have been trying to get WebDAV authentication working so I can work on web stuff from home, but I ended up creating an ACL based on IP address ranges. For some reason, just referencing Basic or MD5 digest authentication was enough to block Apache from restarting. I found a few references to the same problem when I was Googling, but no solutions yet.
I’ll keep looking, but or now I have a reasonably secure solution.