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| − | + | In this lab we will have a quick look at several separate technologies that are often used together with the Apache web server to install and run web applications. | |
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| + | Apache on its own does little more than serve text pages, images, and other static files. You can format those pages to look nice but they won't have any dynamic functionality - they will always look the same. | ||
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| + | To add life to a website more than just the web server is needed. A popular acronym is LAMP. It stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (or Python). This week we will set up this stack to give us a website that does webmail (send and receive email in a web browser). | ||
Revision as of 21:35, 28 March 2016
In this lab we will have a quick look at several separate technologies that are often used together with the Apache web server to install and run web applications.
Apache on its own does little more than serve text pages, images, and other static files. You can format those pages to look nice but they won't have any dynamic functionality - they will always look the same.
To add life to a website more than just the web server is needed. A popular acronym is LAMP. It stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (or Python). This week we will set up this stack to give us a website that does webmail (send and receive email in a web browser).
