My choice is always the O'Reilley books (
http://www.ora.com). I do most of
my CGI stuff in Perl (since I do a lot of system stuff in it anyway) and
they have the best books I've looked at (they have an especially good
'CGI for Perl in 60 minutes' or something like that). One of my favourite
jump-off points for scripts is
http://www.extropia.com/Scripts/.
As for Linux....are you new to Unix? Start there. I bought one of those
Que books for linux-specific stuff a while back and was not too impressed.
I was going to take a look at Yggdrasil's 'Linux Bible', so if anyone has
that one I'd like to hear what you think. There's one other book that I
recall from a year ago, give or take, called something like 'Running a
Perfect Internet Site With Linux' that may have everything you'll need to
know about the system. The entire text used to be online, but that was
some time ago. However, in order to fit this topic to the list, I really
think you should abandon the idea of a web server and set up an *8-bit
Atari BBS* instead. Mine was a 130XE with 384K ram (I did the upgrade
myself - had to run it with the cover off because of the heat), 4 1050
disk drives, and a single 2400b Codex modem. I was 13 years old, I don't
think I've ever had that much fun with a computer since. I had a "retro"
system set up a year-or-so ago, but the only calls I ever got were from
the guy who had helped me set up the original.
Hope that helps,
Aaron
On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Hans B Pufal wrote:
> Hotze wrote:
> >
> > Hi. I'm getting really interested in setting up a fairly good web
> > server, and I want to learn all (most) about Linux, Apache, and
> > CGI/Java scripting. What's needed, etc.
> > If anyone could recommend some books, and, if they've got the
> > ISBN's so I can find 'em....
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > Tim D. Hotze
>
> For Apache : "Apache The Definitive Guide" by Ben Laurie and Peter
> Laurie, published by O'Reilly & Associates ISBN : 1-56592-250-6
>
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