Linux Web

LINUX® Web Server Toolkit

Format: Paperback
Author: Nicholas D. Wells
ReleaseDate: March, 1998
Publisher:
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Another rushed title to milk more out of the Linux bandwagon
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 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'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Also includes one of those completely out of date CDs.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?.

Really Suck!
If you want step by step instructions, you are better off buying other book. Suck! Yes it was really suck. 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!.

Watch out! Bad Examples! No Workie!
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. The examples in the book regarding SSI do not indicate double quotes " around the commands.