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Title: You'd Be Better Off Printing the Apache Online Help
Review: This book, unlike virtually every other O'Reilly book I own, almost completely fails in its effort to educate the reader. Each chapter starts out with a page or two of well-written text, then, just when you become interested you're faced with page after page of configuration settings, with very little explanation of what each setting does or, more importantly, why you would ever care what it does. Worse, the authors tend to use a lot of words where a few would have been better. For example, instead of just saying that Apache would report an error they say "you have a problem that's signaled by disagreeable messages at the client end, plus equivalent stories in the log files on the server..."Huh?As I said in the title, you'd be better off printing the Apache help, because at least it's free.
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