Apache: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition Review

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Book:		Apache: The Definitive Guide
Subject:		Apache: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition Review
Date:		2000-05-17 13:47:14
From:		Alexander Danel

Rating: I read the book from cover to cover, and now I'm attempting to go back and go through the examples. I have an immediate and perhaps major problem at page 38, section "Our Experimental Micro Web". It seems that the setup info on this page is going to be critical for much of what the rest of the book wants me to do, but it doesn't work on my Red-Hat Linux 6.1 machine. Nore is there much of a clue about what is supposed to happen. The problem is with the "ifconfig" program (which, by the way, is poorly documented in the Linux man page.) I can sort of guess what it's supposed to do, but there really should be a clear explanation. And since I can't get "ifconfig" to work with the same parameter list on my machine, I'm stuck. It is not sufficient, in my opinion, to say "here's how it works on FreeBSD" when many of us are using different variants. This is too critical and cryptic a place to wave hands; the author should do the research for most popular Operating System variants, and provide enough explanation so that the remainin OS variants can be figured out. Bad spot to get lazy.