Setting Up LAMP: Getting Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP Working Together @ richardeward.com

Setting Up LAMP: Getting Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP Working Together
by Eric Rosebrock, Eric Filson
from Sybex

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• setting up lamp
  At the moment, don't buy this book. The reason: what is otherwise an excellent book cannot be followed, because the essential steps it takes you through require resources that are not available - ie. the web resources no longer exist. Time is money, and after spending another long day yesterday, running into one dead end after another, one failed work around after another, this book has cost me lots, and I've not achieved anywhere near Setting Up Lamp. The authors/publisher could correct this easily enough,... more info

• Good information but outdated
  This book was probably great a couple of years ago. It has great step-by-step instructions, and it walks you through things in a very detailed manner.
  However, since the versions of all software (and the OS) used in the book have been updated at least a few times since 2004, I ran into several issues. Maybe 10% of all the links are accurate (which you need to install the .rpm files in the way the book tells you to), and when you do find the updated versions of everything, some of the commands the book... more info

• Not what was expected.
  I am very unsatisfied with this book. It only gives instructions on how to setup a lamp using one distro only. And it was geared only to well experienced users. The book was incomprehensible to me.

• Not a beginner book
  This book is listed as a beginner to intermediate book, but I would rate it as intermediate at the very least. The author has a fetish for unnecessarily elaborate terminology that overcomplicates straightforward operational activities (to exemplify my point). Otherwise, it is a good overview of the four technologies and how they work together to provide a seamless web presence.

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