I like this book because it has a solid well thought out approach to Building and Administering a LAMP server.

The Authors insist that you use the Command Line Interface (CLI) to build and administer the server.

They also explain how to delete pre-installed server demons like Apache, PHP and MySQL and re-install from a Tar-gz file.

(Personally compiling the Demons into the server seems like more work then simply using the RPM or the DEB file but they claim it is the best practice.)

The Authors also reccomend Pico instead of VI for editing the system files.

I would reccomend this for new and intermediate Linux Server admins. in addition to posting questions here on LQ.

I would also advise anyone who runs a server to become a regular at the Security forum at LQ. Either that or check the Cert website daily for reported security issues.

I found this book very useful as a follow up to Running Linux. It taught me a lot of useful stuff from the ground up that filled gaps in my knowledge.

The authors are very prescriptive. However, if you don't have the time or knowledge to really understand your system their setup will still give you a solid secure server.

You could buy this book, a distro CD, a bare machine and a broadband connection and get yourself a working webserver.

I have just finished my first LAMP application on SUSE 10.0 using this book.

Although they refer to Fedora, I didn't have any major problems applying this book to set up on my Suse box using my home broadband connection and wifi lan :-)

here's a sample link free..:-)

http://g.bookpool.com/gp/0504sybex/0782143377.pdf