Product Description

After covering the "must-haves" for every Web site, this book moves on and shows how to put Apache's extensive security capabilities to work. Later chapters explore advanced topics such as electronic commerce, working with databases, extending the server's capabilities, and optimizing Apache. Covers a plethora of very important technologies, including Web server organization, creating effective CGI scripts, database management, password/DBM authentication, encryption, generating virtual HTML documents, using RSA certificates and secure sockets, parsing and processing form data, and more. With this book by their side and the free copy of Apache, readers will have everything they need to run a full-featured Web site.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1482425 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01-20
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

About the Author
Greg Holden (Chicago, IL) has written several books about the Internet and computer-related topics and numerous columns specializing in e-commerce, e-business, and the creation of Web sites. Greg was the co-founder of Stylus Media and currently serving as President of this company.

Customer Reviews

This book is good two years ago, but not now
I bought this book, and I found that Apache did not have the Version decribed in this book available for me to download.

This book was good for me only with the basic command just to make a web site up and running, but was not good for me in configuring CGI, access control, and other complicated usages.

Apache has updated its version frequently. So, you will have difficulties using instructions from this book with Apache of today versions.

Get newer Apache books if you can.

I also wish the author writes a new and updated version though.

Great Book for the Apache Server--Up & Running in No Time
I'd recommend this excellent book! This book presented the steps (with great explanations) that I needed to easily set up the Apache Server. It has breath enough for more expert users, too. Its content was equal or greater than the O'Reilly press's "Apache Definitive Guide" (which I purchased first and could not understand).

Not that perfect but it helps a lot (4.5 Stars)
Well , it helps me start from nothing-i-know-about-apache and now my site is running as i expected.So cool and smooth. No error found in the book. But anyway curious web admin will get benefit from more-detail and real world-based implementation ,for example, all modules usage in dept, custom source compliation on win32 etc. (I know that this info could be found in online docs ,right? but i'd love to read from text book) I love this book but still wondering why the authors include (p.270) pics of how to enter proxy server setting in NS/IE ? Is it that important?