- ISBN13: 9780596529949
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
There’s plenty of documentation on installing and configuring the Apache web server, but where do you find help for the day-to-day stuff, like adding common modules or fine-tuning your activity logging? That’s easy. The new edition of the Apache Cookbook offers you updated solutions to the problems you’re likely to encounter with the new versions of Apache.
Written by members of the Apache Software Foundation, and thoroughly revised for Apache versions 2.0 a… More >>
Apache Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Apache Administrators
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#1 by J. M. Florian on March 30, 2010 - 6:39 pm
The kind of solutions this book gives are not aimed at someone like me, new and uncertain when it comes to linux. This is a dissapointment for me, as I have normally always been very pleased with O’Reilly books.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Midwest Book Review on March 30, 2010 - 7:34 pm
The collaboration of Apache software experts Ken Coar and Rich Bowen, Covering Apache 2.0 & 1.3, Apache Cookbook is a “user friendly” guide and comprehensive reference to the most widely used web server in the world. Offering common problems and solutions; step-by-step walk-throughs; discussion problems; sample codes; worked-out solutions; instructions for tasks such as installing the server or managing a proxy server, and so much more, Apache Cookbook is a “must-have” instructional reference for anyone charged with the responsibility of setting up or maintaining an Apache based web server.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Joseph A. Nagy Jr. on March 30, 2010 - 8:43 pm
The Apache Cookbook is a must have for anyone considering running their own Apache web server. It covers every major feature of Apache and does so without giving too information to the new user while giving more experienced users the guidance to go off on their own and become Apache power users in their own right.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Aleksandar Gargenta on March 30, 2010 - 11:08 pm
Apache Cookbook is a great resource on various best-practice tips and tricks on how to setup and run Apache HTTP server day to day.
The included HOW-TO recipes are:
* Extremely practical and relevant
* Easy to follow and implement
* Well-explained so that not only do you know what you are doing, but also why you are doing it
* Neatly categorized and indexed so that they are easy to find when needed
While this book can be very useful to Apache novices, people who would benefit the most from it are the ones who’ve had some previous exposure to Apache administration and are familiar with the basic concepts behind Apache (configuration files, included programs, modules, directives, sections, and such).
If you are an Apache administrator, this book ought to be on your bookshelf.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Abe Usher on March 31, 2010 - 12:30 am
I read this book about a year ago and recently re-read it. Coar and Bowen provide an excellent pragmatic approach to taking care of common Apache administration tasks. The Apache “recipes” are well organized, and presented with sufficient depth to be understandable for intermedia users.
The tips in the “miscellaneous topics” section and the troubleshooting guidelines are excellent, and will save Apache administrators significant amounts of time and frustration.
The good:
* Broad coverage of all tasks that Apache administrators will commonly encounter.
* Excellent writing style – concise yet sufficiently descriptive.
* Good organization of topics and very useful book index.
* Very good coverage of virtual hosts (required in most web hosting environments).
* Very appropriate “see also” references associated with each recipe.
The bad:
* Almost 25% of the book is taken up by installation, loading modules, and logging. These are good topics, but they take up too much of the book in my perspective.
* No information on the use of mod_python. mod_snake (a dead sourceforge) project is referenced. Blech.
* No information on co-hosting two versions of PHP (PHP4 and PHP5 on the same server).
Overall, this is a great book. If it had slightly better coverage on mod_python and mod_PHP I would give it five stars for certain.
Rating: 4 / 5