LINUX® Web Server Toolkit [Bargain Price] [Paperback]

Nicholas D. Wells (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 28, 1998

This text provides the fundamental aspects of the Linux Web server. It includes server administration details; profiles of URL sites to monitor; companies and products to watch; and some advice on avoiding pitfalls. The accompanying CD-ROM contains everything needed to create a Linux Web server.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

A broad set of talents is required to set up a Linux Web server and a Web site that uses the server. You need to be a Linux administrator, a network guru, a graphic designer, proficient in HTML, and able to create both Common Gateway Interface (CGI) and Java scripts--or have some significant subset of these skills. Linux Web Server Toolkit covers all these topics. The approach throughout is not just to tell you how to do something, but to put it in its appropriate context.

The book covers topics from installing Linux and a Linux Web server to creating CGI scripts and planning disaster-recovery schemes. Advanced users will undoubtedly find some material, such as the creation of Web pages or choosing an Internet service provider (ISP), too elementary. However, the chapter on configuring the Apache Web server and the chapter on configuring the Netscape FastTrack server are essential reading for all levels. The first 9 chapters form a foundation for new Web administrators to use the last 12 chapters of the book. These later chapters cover such topics as Web-page statistics, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) access setup, server APIs, and Internet security. This book also contains a concise and useful overview of Internet technology. The included CD-ROM features Caldera OpenLinux Lite, the Apache Web Server, X Windows, programming tools, and many other Unix applications. --Robert Frankland --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Nicholas D. Wells manages the documentation, training, and Web site for Caldera. Nick has contributed to NetWare titles for Sybex and the Network Professionals Association newsletter and has written extensively on NetWare security. Before joining Caldera, Nick was a technical writer and editor at Novell and was part of the Corsair team, which began to create a new Linux-based desktop operating system. Before joining Novell as a writer, Nick developed educational software and small business applications for ten years. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 502 pages
• ISBN-10: 0764531670
• ASIN: B00007FYFP
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #641,722 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Another rushed title to milk more out of the Linux bandwagon, December 27, 1999

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RaverMeister (England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: LINUX® Web Server Toolkit (Paperback)

If you have more than 10 minutes Net experience and say, ooh, 3 minutes of coding html you can skip the first 200 or so pages. If you have a couple of days of Linux under your belt, you'll find that most of the remaining content can be found in the relevant man pages.

If you're about to join the Linux club you should note that the author used the Caldera distro, and he assumes you will too. So don't install RH/SuSE/whatever and expect to find his admin menu! He also assumes you'll have enough knowledge to fill in the gaps where he was obviously getting bored writing the book.

Sysadmin's should not look here.

Also includes one of those completely out of date CDs. Why oh why?

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Watch out! Bad Examples! No Workie!, September 21, 1999

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[e-mail] (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: LINUX® Web Server Toolkit (Paperback)

The examples in the book regarding SSI do not indicate double quotes " around the commands. If you're not familiar with this (like I wasn't) you'll probably end up banging your head against the wall for weeks trying to figure out why SSI doesn't work.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Really Suck!, October 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: LINUX® Web Server Toolkit (Paperback)

Suck! Yes it was really suck. If you want step by step instructions, you are better off buying other book. The CD-ROM was really really lousy because they have so little driver listing. I have installed RedHat Linux before, and it worked great with all software drivers available in their presented option (I tested this Caldera version because it offered 500MB disk space rather than 2Gbyte like RedHat.) I have all brandname hardware device and yet this Caldera does not have software driver for me to install. Ex: SoundBlaster from Creative Lab, now this is the basic standard sound card. How could this Caldera not support driver for this? see what I mean. So, If you got no name brand, you are in deep yogurt! I don't have money to throw away; so, I am really regretting buying this book. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!