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The Acronym LAMP refers to a Solution Stack of software programs, commonly Open Source programs, used together to run dynamic Web Site s or Server s. The original expansion is as follows:
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. More recently, the P has come to refer frequently to Perl or Python as alternate programming languages. See '' Variants '', below. 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 Distribution s). When used in combination they represent a Solution Stack of technologies that support Application Server s. Other such stacks include unified application development environments such as Apple Computer 's WebObjects , Java / Java EE , Grails , and Microsoft 's .NET architecture. 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 Language s 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 Language s. '' 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 increase the popularity of free software. 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. SOFTWARE Linux See Also: Linux Linux (also known as '''GNU/Linux''') is a Unix-like computer Operating System . Apache HTTP Server See Also: Apache HTTP Server Apache HTTP Server is a '' reference platform against which other web servers are designed and judged. MySQL See Also: MySQL MySQL is a Multithread ed, Multi-user , SQL Database Management System ( DBMS ) with more than ten million installations Robin Schumacher & Arjen Lentz Dispelling the Myths. PHP See Also: PHP PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a Reflective Programming Language originally designed for producing Dynamic Web Page s. PHP is used mainly in Server-side Application Software , but can be used from a Command Line Interface or in standalone Graphical Applications . VARIANTS Sometimes Perl and Python are used in place of PHP and are often referred to as LAMP systems as well. One review of the platform goes so far as to say "Let the P stand for PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby."1 Some developers prefer to use the M to mean Mod Perl or Mod Python and the P to mean PostgreSQL in effect reversing the M and the P in functionality, which can cause some confusion. Another variant designates the M to be Middleware (including Ruby , Perl, Python ''etc.'') and the P to be PostgreSQL. Although not generally accepted, this definition could be seen as a token of the continuing evolution in the Free Software Community while redefining its objectives and boundaries. Operating system See Also: List of operating systems Comparison of operating systems
Web server See Also: Comparison of web servers A non-free, common alternative for Apache HTTP Server is Microsoft Internet Information Services or IIS. Because this can only be run on Microsoft software, a Microsoft Windows operating system must be used instead of Linux.
Databases See Also: List of relational database management systems Comparison of relational database management systems
Programming language See Also: Comparison of programming languages
Other variations
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. SEE ALSO
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