Apache Cookbook, Second Edition

Solutions and Examples for Apache Administration

By Rich Bowen, Ken Coar
December 2007
Pages: 306
Series: Cookbooks
ISBN 10: 0-596-52994-5 | ISBN 13: 9780596529949
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Description

The new edition of the Apache Cookbook offers you updated solutions to the problems you're likely to encounter with Apache. Thoroughly updated for Apache versions 2.0 and 2.2, this book includes more than 200 recipes ranging from simple tasks, such installing the server on Red Hat Linux or Windows, to more complex tasks, such as setting up name-based virtual hosts or securing and managing your proxy server.
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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 and 2.2, recipes in this book range from simple tasks, such installing the server on Red Hat Linux or Windows, to more complex tasks, such as setting up name-based virtual hosts or securing and managing your proxy server. Altogether, you get more than 200 timesaving recipes for solving a crisis or other deadline conundrums, with topics including:

Security
Aliases, Redirecting, and Rewriting
CGI Scripts, the suexec Wrapper, and other dynamic content techniques
Error Handling
SSL
Performance

This book tackles everything from beginner problems to those faced by experienced users. For every problem addressed in the book, you will find a worked-out solution that includes short, focused pieces of code you can use immediately. You also get explanations of how and why the code works, so you can adapt the problem-solving techniques to similar situations.

Instead of poking around mailing lists, online documentation, and other sources, rely on the Apache Cookbook for quick solutions when you need them. Then you can spend your time and energy where it matters most.

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Develope locally, windows needs help, June 23 2009

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Submitted by cactusmitch [Respond | View]

Still easier to get a Mac!

Installing Apache on a Windows machine is easy with this book. Getting Apache and PHP to run so that one doesn't need to have net access, is not. An update for Section 2.6 "Installin mod_php on Windows" should be writen to account for PHP5.

Otherwise this is the book you want.

NONE TO SOON !, December 21 2007

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Submitted by figital [Respond | View]

The first edition was the most useful and practical computer book I have ever read.

The book has "gone missing" during the past year so I'm excited to receive the new edition when it's released in a few weeks.

I do remember this is the first place that mod_rewrite was demystified for me which dramatically increased the usability (and scalability) of my applications and APIs.

Hopefully the 2nd edition will explore some of the newer configuration frameworks in the Debian/Ubuntu installations.

Scott Fitchet

figital.com (http://www.figital.com)

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Media reviews
"If you often find yourself working with the Apache web server, O’Reilly’s Apache Cookbook by Ken Coar and Rich Bowen is a must-have reference...This is a highly recommended book that I’ll no doubt find myself referencing time and time again."
-- Kevin Zolkiewicz, ChicagoRuby.org

"The book will surely be of great interest to Apache administrators of different levels of expertise. It covers quite a long list of topics and the solutions are often unique. Some will argue that Google search can replace this type of a book, but this is not the case. Apache Cookbook is a centralized publication that provides a number of answers I didn't come across online and besides this, some of the recipes will definitely give you further ideas on things to do with your Apache web server."
-- Mirko Zorz, Help Net Security

"...this book is packed full of useful solutions to some of the more common and some of the more obscure problems that you may encounter when working with Apache."
-- Andy Hudson, Linux Format

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"If you often find yourself working with the Apache web server, O’Reilly’s Apache Cookbook is a must-have reference...This is a highly recommended book that I’ll no doubt find myself referencing time and time again."
--Kevin Zolkiewicz, ChicagoRuby.org