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Apache Server 2 Bible
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Author: Mohammed J. Kabir
List Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 0764548212
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (18 March, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 66,858
Average Customer Rating: 3.78 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
Not quite enough
My requirements: Apache+SSL+PHPThis book does cover some fundamental concepts but provides too few examples (especially in the areas of installation and getting SSL up and running). I had to refer to the website more often than the book. Good, but not good enough.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Find something better
This is a 600-page tome that gives you just enough information to make you very dangerous, and a bunch of non-sensical dialog that could have been left out. The book is also full of embarrassing errors and glaring contradictions. My favorite, in the mod_perl section is, "...when using mod_perl to run CGI scripts you cannot use ScriptAlias" followed very shortly by "You should also have a ScriptAlias directive..." The author probably knows a lot about Apache, but unfortunately is ineffective at teaching, a drawback particularly for novices reading his book. Too much is left out of this book, and too much is erroneous for you to put your put your faith in it. Try a more professional outfit, like O'Reilly's Apache: The Definitive Guide.
Rating: 3 out of 5
this book is good, but there are better books
I've read about 3/4 of this book and found it easy to understand and helpful. But I wanted to mention another book, Professional Apache (Wrox, September 1999), which for some reason, doesn't show up on any amazon searches. I'm relatively new to programming, so I'm not able to evaluate all the details of Professional apache, but it is more up-to-date and (in my mind) easier to understand. And very comprehensive.
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