Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP, and Perl - Light Your Lampp With Your Own Server
With all of the available web hosting plans, now is the time to start building sites whether your goal is fun, education, profit or all of the above. The days of plain static HTML sites is past. Today’s servers feature access to programming languages and database capability to provide dynamic web pages with just a little bit of coding. You may have run across a new word, lampp. Lampp is an acronym for Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP, and Perl. Keep reading to see why these words are important to you. L – The Linux operating system, open source, fast and flexible, and constantly being approved A – The Apache web server, the framework for your website M – Mysql – the most popular open source database P – PHP – a flexible scripting language that makes it easy to create dynamic web pages P – Perl – the old standby language of the web, excellent for text manipulation and data analysis An excellent example of the use of lampp is the blogging so...