RE: Case Studies

In my experience the Apache docs are good once you get to know them, but they require a bit of getting used to. We're in a difficult situation right now because we're all (I assume) fairly comfortable with the docs and the other resources available (ApacheWeek, for example). All of this time we've spent with Apache has probably made us blind to the problems a novice will face just looking at the docs for the first time.

Maybe what we're talking about is a very general tutorial about Apache itself. How the server works, what modules are, what the components of CGI are and how they can work with Apache (mod_perl, etc.). What about putting this very general guide together so people who are just starting to look at various web servers don't have to really struggle to get a grasp on what Apache is and does.

As for the more in-depth documents (ie. mod_rewrite) those are the sorts of things that should be tackled as they are starting to be understood... that way, you get all the answers to your newbie questions, and have the docs written before you forget the niggling details.

Comments?

Jon

Jon MacKay
jmackay@rim.net
http://www.rim.net

> I would have to say, in my opinion, that the Apache Docs are
Received on Tue Dec 01 16:14:36 1998