What is a LAMP stack

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What does the term LAMP Stack mean  I have seen this reference in job postings  but I don t fully understand the meaning of it  I feel like in my development I use LAMP fairly commonly  but when I hear  quot stack quot  I feel like I am not using a LAMP environment as I should be   I know what LAMP means and just wanted to know what the term  quot stack quot  tacked on meant

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That simply means using Linux  Apache  MySQL and PHP as your operating system  web server  database  and programming language  respectively

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Linux  Apache  MySQL and PHP   free and open-source software  For example  an equivalent installation on the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems is known as WAMP  and for mac as MAMP  and XAMPP for both of them

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To be precise and crisp   LAMP is L Linux  A Apache  M Mysql  P PHP5  is a combined package intended for web-application development   The easiest way to install Lamp is as follows  1  Using tasksel   Below are the list of commands  sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install tasksel sudo tasksel   will give you a prompt check the LAMP server and select Ok   Thats it LAMP is ready to glow your knowledge

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I   ll try to answer the actual question of what a stack is  In the Internet architecture  TCP IP  OSI  etc    protocols and software are often    stacked    on top of each other  as they depend on each other for support  For example  TCP provides reliable transmissions of data  on top of IP  The same goes for LAMP  your Apache server needs to run    on top of Linux     Think of this    stack    as your favorite stack of pancakes  where each pancake is a different layer   Yummy

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For anyone still looking into this in order to learn specifically what a stack is  the term  stack  is referring to a  solution stack    A solution stack is simply a complete set of software to address a given problem  usually by combining to provide the platform or infrastructure necessary   This term is the parent of both  server stack  and  web stack    Accordingly  a LAMP stack is a specific and complete set of software specifically aimed at serving dynamic content over the web   Some extra reading    https   www techopedia com definition 28154 solution-stack https   en wikipedia org wiki Solution stack

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Linux operating system Apache web server MySQL database and PHP Reference  LAMP  software bundle  The  quot stack quot  term means stack  That means if you have experience in working with these technologies framework or not  Since all these come together in a LAMP package  which you can download and install  they call it a stack

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L for Linux operating system A for apache web server M for Mysql database  p for php for scripting and php modules  We can host php programs and cgi programs in LAMP system   eg  In ubuntu apt-get install apache2 for web server     apt-get install mysql-server php5-mysql for database and php     apt-get install php5  and got to your web server http   localhost

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Lamp stack stands for Linux Apache Mysql PHP   there is also Mean Stack MongoDB ExpressJS AngularJS NodeJS

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There are various technological stacks present  Have a look  LAMP  Linux  Apache  MySQL  PHP WAMP  Windows  Apache  MySQL  PHP  MAMP  Mac operating system  Apache web server  MySQL as database  PHP for scripting XAMPP  X is cross-platform  Apache  MySQL  PHP  Perl  MEAN  MongoDB  Express js  Angular  Node js  MERN  MongoDB  Express js  React  Node js

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LAMP means  L   Linux  OS  A   Apache  web server  M   MySQL  database  P   PHP  language  From LAMP  Wikipedia    Short for Linux  Apache  MySQL and PHP  an open-source Web development platform  also called a Web stack  that uses Linux as the operating system  Apache as the Web server  MySQL as the RDBMS and PHP as the object-oriented scripting language  Perl or Python is often substituted for PHP

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The reason they call it a stack is because each level derives off its base layer  Your operating system  Linux  is the base layer  Then Apache  your web daemon sits on top of your OS  Then your database stores all the information served by your web daemon  and PHP  or any P  scripting language  is used to drive and display all the data  and allow for user interaction  Don t be overly concerned with the term  stack   People really just mean software suite or bundle  but you re using it just fine I am sure as you are

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