Friday, February 9, 2007

WK4 - What is LAMP?

The acronym LAMP (or L.A.M.P) refers to a solution stack of free software programs commonly used together to run dynamic Web sites or servers.

  • L for Linux, (referring to OS kernel);
  • A for Apache, (referring to Web server);
  • M for MySQL, (referring to database management system);
  • P for PHP, sometimes Perl or Python, (referring to the programming language).

The combination of these technologies is used primarily to define a web server intrastructure, define a programming paradigm of developing software, and establish a software distribution package.

And the LAMP stack is open source and origin in the CGI interfaces that becomes popular in the early 1990s. The LAMP could provide dynamic webpage comparing to other unified development solution such as J2EE, Microsoft's .NET architecture.

You can come to LAMP installation to build up your own web server.

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