Re: looking for "How-to" book for SECURELY setting up apache/PHP/MySQL

Notgiven wrote:
Here's a book like I am looking for but this one does not have great feedback on amazon.

http://www.sitepoint.com/books/linux1/

I want an easy to follow hot-to book - step by step - for setting up firewall, apache, php and mysql on a *nix platform. the OS would already be installed for me by the host.

Something like this course (http://www.sans.org/onsite/description.php?tid=280) in book form.

Any ideas or recommendations are much appreciated!


Dunno about a book, I do know I was much helped by the Securityfocus' primers on setting up Apache, Mysql and PHP securely. See their website.
Before buying any computer related book these days I first have a peek at a downloaded ebook copy before I decide to buy. I've spent way too much cash on treeware that turned out to be rather useless.

Mininova.org and isohunt.com have many ebooks/ebook collections in their db's. You'd need a bittorrent client to download them of course.

Since printing takes a lot of time and money (often more than the list price of the book itself) and reading onscreen still isn't my idea of fun I still prefer getting myself a hardcopy of any good book. YMMV

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