LAMP (software bundle)
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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:
- Linux, referring to the operating system;
- Apache, the Web server;
- MySQL, the database management system (or database server);
- one of several scripting languages: Perl, PHP or Python.[1]
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.
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[edit] History
The scripting component of the LAMP stack has its origins in the CGI web 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 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.
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.
[edit] Software
[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 16th January 2008, owned by Sun Microsystems[5][6], as of 20th April 2009, Oracle Corporation has agreed to purchase Sun Microsystems[7].
[edit] Perl / PHP / Python
These three interpreted languages are common choices for Linux web development. One review of the platform goes so far as to say "Let the P stand for Programming language like PHP, Perl, and Python."[8]
[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". http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/01/25/lamp.html.
- ^ c't 12/98, page 230 - Freeware Web Publishing System
- ^ Market Shares for Top Servers Across All Domains August 1995 - April 2007
- ^ 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)
- ^ Dale Dougherty (January 26, 2001). "LAMP: The Open Source Web Platform". http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/01/25/lamp.html.
[edit] External links
- Install a LAMP server on Ubuntu 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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