Review of Run Your Own Webserver using Linux and Apache
There’s a nice complimentary review of my second book, Run Your Own Web Server Using Linux & Apache, in issue 69 of Linux Magazine. The review itself (warning: PDF) says
Then it occurred to me that this book is not intended as a book for a seasoned Apache administrator. The book is written for people who, probably for the first time, have decided to take advantage of the power of both Linux and Apache and set up a web server on their own… [W]hen viewing this book in the light of its true target audience, I consider it a great piece of work. If you are just starting out with building an Apache web server on Linux, this is the book for you.
That’s exactly what we were aiming for. The review author, James Mohr, has hit the nail precisely on the head. The audience for the book, the typical use case, was someone who knows something about computers, maybe does a bit of admin on a couple of Windows boxes in their organisation, and wants to set up a Linux server on a piece of kit they’ve found in the basement to try it out, to see what all the fuss is about, and to see if it’ll help their organisation. The idea is that someone like that hears about Linux, wants to give it a shot to see if it’ll do what they want without having to go and buy an expensive server and another Windows licence, and wanders into a bookshop to grab a book explaining it. When they do that and see a book called “Run Your Own Web Server Using Linux & Apache”, they’ll (hopefully) think “aha! that’s what I want to do!” and find the book useful. Looks like we got the pitch about right.
The book was most helpful for me, i’m running a webserver that reading this booked helped me setup [although i did use Fedora Core 5 and not 4 that the book comes with] My only gripe with it [fedora and not the book] is
httpd: Syntax error on line 170 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/mod_access.so into server: /etc/httpd/modules/mod_access.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory - it turns out that all thats required to fix it is a rename of the httpd.conf file.
But i’d recommend the book anyway :)
28 minutes later
Thank you!!!!
The only good thing I can say for the System/Administration/Server Settings/HTTP GUI is that it did make a .bak file.
I am running Fedora core 5 and all of a sudden today I lost my http server after browsing through the GUI changed some settings and set them back and since I had set them back I didn’t think it would hurt to overwrite the file when I exited the GUI.
Again thank you for your advice on renaming the file or should I say overwirting the httpd.conf with the httpd.conf.bak file. :)
7 weeks later