LAMP (software bundle) |
The acronym LAMP (software bundle) refers to a set of free software programs commonly used together to run dynamic Web site or servers: *Linux, the operating system s kernel; *Apache HTTP Server, the Web server; *MySQL, the DBMS (or database server); *Perl, PHP, and/or Python programming language, scripting languages.
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 cost and because of the ubiquity of its components (which come bundled with most current Linux distributions particularly as deployed by ISPs). When used in combination they represent a solution stack of technologies that support application servers. Other such stacks include Apple Computer s WebObjects, Java_programming_language/J2EE and Microsoft s Microsoft_.NET architecture.
The scripting component of the LAMP stack has its origins in the Common_Gateway_Interface web browser interfaces that became popular in the early 1990s. This technology allows the user of a web browser to execute a program on the web server, and to thereby receive dynamic as well as static content. Programmers used Scripting programming languages with these programs because of their ability to manipulate text streams easily and efficiently, even when they originate from disparate sources. For this reason system designers often referred to such scripting systems as glue languages.
in 1998 (12/98, page 230). The article aimed to show that a bundle of free software could provide a viable alternative to commercial packages. Knowing about the IT-world s love of acronyms, Kunze came up with LAMP as a marketing-like term to popularize the use of free software.
O Reilly Media and MySQL AB have popularized the term among English-speakers. Indeed, MySQL AB has since based some of its marketing efforts on the popularity of the LAMP stack. Other projects and vendors came up with variants of the term, including:
Some employ the term LAMP generically to describe such alternative systems rather than make a new acronym, using it to denote the contrast between such systems and a unified web application development environment (such as Active Server Pages, .NET or J2EE).
As an example, Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, runs software in what one could characterize as a LAMP environment. Wikipedia uses MediaWiki software, developed primarily under Linux, with content served with Apache HTTPD server, content stored in a MySQL database, and program logic implemented in PHP.
=See also=
*List of AMP Packages
=External links=
*[http://www.onlamp.com/ ONLamp.com], from O Reilly & Associates *[http://www.lampware.org/ LAMPware.org], LAMP Community Site *[http://www.iki.fi/karvinen/lamp-linux-apache-mysql-php.html Build Web Interface to Database] - LAMP Tutorial *[http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/06/22/26OPstrategic_1.html Enterprise LAMP] InfoWorld article on ActiveGrid s new 0.7 early access release *[http://www.linuxforum.com/lamp-manual.php Linuxforum.com LAMP], Element Background Info *[http://www.zzoss.com/projects/installer Web] [http://sourceforge.net/projects/zzossinstaller/ SF] ZZ/OSS LAMP Installer *[http://lamppix.tinowagner.com/ LAMPPIX] A CD-bootable LAMP server *[http://www.apachefriends.org/en/ XAMPP] Apache HTTPD bundle with MySQL, Perl, and PHP *[http://www.bitrock.com/download_lamp_download.html LAMPStack] Easy to install LAMP distribution (Apache, MySQL, Python and PHP), free for use under the terms of the Apache License 2.0.|
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