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MAC OS X Web Server Handbook
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Author: David L. Hart
List Price: $39.99
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ISBN: 0130327158
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (08 May, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 133,463
Average Customer Rating: 3.2 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
Controversy
Actually, this book is a controversy.It looks like people really liked it or hated it. And this depends on whether what they were looking for was in this book or not. The book's title is misleading because the book will NOT teach you how to actually manage a Mac web server. Instead, it will tell you everything you need to know about Mac servers and will give you weblinks to deepens your search. I didnot know anything about Mac server and now, I am pretty knowledgeable about all possible options to choose from for how to use a Mac server. What I really appreciated was the panel of options Hart describes of web software. This is a general book with only horizontal knowledge. A great first time user's book!!!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Mac OS X Web Server Handbook - the web server part..
I picked up this book, because as you can probably guess.. I am planning on running the Apache Server so I can develop web applications and test them on my local machine. Either I misread the back, or I thought this book was going to teach me everything about setting up and developing on a web server.. however the author tends to just glide over the good stuff and spend oodles of time telling you about the millions of things you can add to your server, but fails to go into any real detail on anything. Oh well, live and learn.
Rating: 2 out of 5
More like a catalog than a handbook
There's nothing in this book that's either complete or concrete. For example, the Apache web server comes standard with X, but this book spends only 6 pages with it; 2 of those pages explain how to use the GUI to turn the web server on or off. (The book is called "Web Server Handbook", right?)When you're talking Unix and mail servers, the first thing that comes to mind is the freeware Sendmail program, which is available for OS X. Oops, "Sendmail" isn't even in the index of this book. On the other hand, the book does devote 12 pages to "Choosing a Browser". 12 pages about choosing a web browser? This isn't something I couldn't figure out for myself? So, what fills the rest of the pages? Glossy catalog style descriptions of Real Player and Quick Time, iTools and Communigate Pro. With less information than you can get from their respective web pages. There's a quick (surprisingly short) overview of network security. A nice introductory writeup of what TCP/IP is all about. You'll find a few reasonable snippet code examples. There's a good but overly brief introduction to databases. And there's some lightweight filler material about XML, XHTML, HTML, PHP, Java, and other buzzwords. If you're new to all of this, this book jumps over too many topics to make it worth bothering with. If you're experienced, this book doesn't really cover anything you don't already know.
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