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LAMP Development - (Linux O/S - Apache Web Server - MySQL Relational Database - PHP Web Scripting Language)
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The acronym LAMP refers to a solution stack of software, usually free and open source software, used to run dynamic Web sites or servers. The original expansion is as follows:
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Linux Operating System - An open source license free operating system similar to UNIX, available for use by thousands of web hosting companies.
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Apache Web Server - The most widely used web server platform in use on the Internet today, freely available to all.
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MySQL Relational Database - a relational database management system (RDBMS) which has more than 11 million installations. Very easy to use and available
as free software under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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PHP programming language - originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, the main implementation of PHP is now produced by The PHP Group and serves as the de
facto standard for PHP as there is no formal specification. PHP is free software released under the PHP License, however it is incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL),
due to restrictions on the usage of the term PHP. PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML.
It generally runs on a web server, taking PHP code as its input and creating web pages as output. It can be deployed on most web servers and on almost every operating system and platform
free of charge. PHP is installed on more than 20 million web sites and 1 million web servers.
The combination of these technologies is used primarily to define a web server infrastructure, define a programming paradigm of developing software, and establish a software distribution package.
Though the originators of these open source programs did not design them all to work specifically with each other, the combination has become popular because of its low acquisition cost and
because of the ubiquity of its components (which come bundled with most current Linux distributions). When used in combination they represent a solution stack of technologies that support application servers.
LAMP is is a great platform for deploying low-cost, reliable, scalable, secure web applications for small to large scale web sites and web applications. The components of the toolset are time tested
and available at almost every web hosting company. You can get up and running very quickly with LAMP and as PHP is a scripting language additions and changes can be deployed in a short amount of time
because the application does not need to be re-compiled.
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