looking for good book for setting up a web server?

[bfrancoeur]

Does anyone know of a good book, that explains things in plain english, the steps and materials needed to set up a web server? I am new to this but have the desire to do so. Any help greatly appreciated.

[bfrancoeur]

I am interested in setting up a web server with e-mail capability.

[jamis]

For email, you'll need an email server such as sendmail (free with linux) or Microsfot exchange ($$$).. another piece all together (unless you just mean email POST forms with CGI scripting)

[jamis]

It all depends on the web server software you are going to use....

Microsoft's IIS (comes with WinNT and Win2k) will probably land you hundreds of hits on Amazon.com for books...

Apache, a free (and more towards the unix box) has tons of doumentation on http://apache.org or on many linux sites such as http://www.linux.org under the documentation section (HOWTO's are wonderful)

Then there are tons of other servers for various platforms that you really dont need much more than the documentation they come with.

It also depends really on what you want to do and need to learn to do with the server.