Apache: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition Review

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Book:		Apache: The Definitive Guide
Subject:		Apache: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition Review
Date:		2003-12-28 07:06:02
From:		N/A

Rating: Unfortunately, this book is extremly obsolete. It's full of old 1.3x code and examples and a few chapters have 2.0.x ones, and the worst: this book has contradictory and wrong paragraphs in several chapters against the official Apache 2.1 docs. It's mainly focused on Unix and it's a total waste of time and money for Windows users running Apache (Unix users that have experience with Apache shouldn't waste their money with this book). Seems that the authors have a kind of contract with FreeBSD group because this is the only OS that mainly appears on the book, it's a shame. Also seems that the authors doesn't know anything about Apache 2.0.x releases, do they want to live in the past?. By the way, the chapter related with "Security" is a complete joke. If you're running recent Apache releases, for example 2.0.4x (with the most interesting and useful features) forget about this outdated and biased book and invest your time with the Official 2.1 Apache docs. Sorry O'Reilly, better luck with the 4th Ediiton.