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It is NOT a reference guide as The Camel Book is to Perl. It is a book for someone who doesn't know about Apache and wants to set up a complex site from scratch. For this reason, it has a "storybook" approach as it walks through the installation and configuration of the increasingly complex requirements of a mythical web-site ("butterthlies.com" - I never got the joke).

Everything is eventually well-covered but an experienced user will have to keep checking the index to find the directive he's after.

By the way, I'd take issue with the reviewer who complained that the procedure for configuring network cards (p38) didn't work on his system. Actually, I was amazed they included this page at all. The book is supposed to be about Apache - getting your network running is really your own affair. As it stands, there is enough information on the page to give you some strong hints about how-to-install-a-network-card on any Unix system. The details vary so much among various Unix flavours (Solaris, HP-UX, Linux..) and even among distributions (Red Hat, SUSE, Caldera..) that it is asking a bit much to expect a page on each.