LAMP (software bundle)
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LAMP is an acronym for a solution stack of free, open source software, originally coined from the first letters of Linux used for the operating system, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL (database software), and PHP or perl (scripting language), principal components to build a viable general purpose web server.
The precise combination of software included in a LAMP package may vary, especially with respect to the web scripting software, as PHP may be replaced by Perl or Python.[1] Similar terms exist for essentially the same software suite (AMP) running on other operating systems, such as MS Windows (WAMP), Mac OS (MAMP), Solaris (SAMP), or OpenBSD (OAMP).
Though the original authors of these programs did not design them all to work specifically with each other, the development philosophy and tool sets are shared and were developed in close conjunction. The software combination has become popular because it is free of cost, open-source, and therefore easily adaptable, and because of the ubiquity of its components which are bundled with most current Linux distributions. When used in combination they represent a solution stack of technologies that support application servers. As such, software packages exist for novice users that deploy all components with a minimal set of installation tasks.
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[edit] History
Michael Kunze coined the acronym LAMP in an article for the German computing magazine c't in April 1998.[2] The article aimed to show that a bundle of free software could provide a viable alternative to commercial packages. Knowing the IT-world's love of acronyms, Kunze came up with LAMP as a marketing-like term to increase the popularity of free software.[citation needed] O'Reilly and MySQL AB have made the term popular among English-speakers. Indeed, MySQL AB has since based some of its marketing efforts on the popularity of the LAMP stack.
The scripting component of the LAMP stack has its origins in the Common Gateway Interface technology of web server 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 thereby receive dynamic as well as static content. Programmers used scripting 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.
[edit] Software components
[edit] Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system kernel.
[edit] Apache
Apache is a free software/open source web server, the most popular in use.[3]
[edit] MySQL
MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL database management system (DBMS) with more than eleven million installations[4]. Since 16 January 2008, owned by Sun Microsystems[5][6], as of 20 April 2009, Oracle Corporation has agreed to purchase Sun Microsystems[7].
[edit] Perl, PHP, or Python
PHP is a reflective programming language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. PHP is used mainly in server-side application software, but can be used from a command-line interface or in standalone graphical applications.
[edit] Variants and alternatives
With the growing use of LAMP, variations and retronyms appeared for other combinations of operating system, web server, database, and software language (see associated articles for additional information).
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Dale Dougherty (January 26, 2001). "LAMP: The Open Source Web Platform". ONLamp. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/01/25/lamp.html.
- ^ http://www.heise.de/ct/english/98/12/230/ c't 12/98, page 230 - Freeware Web Publishing System (no longer available)[dead link]
- ^ "Market Shares for Top Servers Across All Domains August 1995 - April 2007". News.netcraft.com. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
- ^ Top Reasons for Product Managers to Embed MySQL on [mySQL.com]
- ^ Robin Schumacher & Arjen Lentz Dispelling the Myths
- ^ Charles Babcock, InformationWeek Sun Locks Up MySQL, Looks To Future Web Development
- ^ Oracle in $7.4bn deal to buy Sun on BBC News (20-Apr-2009)
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- Install a LAMP server on Debian GNU/Linux
- Install a LAMP server on Ubuntu Linux
- Install a LAMP server on SUSE Linux
- Install a LAMP server on CentOS 5 Linux
- Think LAMP
- ONLamp, from O'Reilly & Associates
- Computerworld QuickStudy on LAMP
- A Comparison of two major dynamic web platforms (LAMP vs. WISA) by Andrew Penry
- LAMP Installation Guide from Leenox
- Simple Debian LAMP and Caching Setup
- LAMP stack software appliance
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