Instead of struggling with ipchains, PMFirewall makes setting up a firewall painless. A chapter is devoted to the installation, layout and use of MySQL as your Structured Query Language server. Using the MySQL ODBC driver, MyODBC for Windows, Microsoft Windows clients can access their Linux MySQL databases. Information is included on configuring and administrating Apache. Apache log files, configuration options, access control, virtual hosting, and modules are a few of the topics covered.
Most database servers are quite expensive to set up.
MySQL, Apache, and PHP provide a cost effective alternative to more well known brands. PHP is a language that is embedded in HTML documents, in a manner similar to Javascript code. Examples on how to use PHP to access your MySQL databases are covered at the end of the book. The author has provided a good foundation for learning PHP and forshowing how to integrate it into a MySQL database. My overall opinion is that this is a very worthwhile book to have on your bookshelf.