1.3 Prerequisites
To be proficient in the tasks that this book describes, the reader needs to have a good understanding of the following:
- Linux server administration (any distribution is fine)
- Installation, patching, users, hardening for hosting externally, etc.
- Getting around the operating system, running shell commands, editing files, etc.
- MySQL (or MariaDB) administration
- The frappe
bench utility does most of the work for the administrator, but having a good understanding of backups, restore, innodb file handling and other concepts is very important. The whole system lives in the database! This is the database that runs your business, so keep it managed.
- If you plan to do any report writing, having a good understand of
SELECT, JOIN, WHERE and other clauses for running queries is going to be handy.
nginx administration
- This book gives some aid and recipes for tasks, but understanding the underlying architecture of the web server will come in handy.