This term was boosted into technology sector vernacular primarily by the editors of O'Reilly & Associates and MySQL AB. These four to six components are commonly used together for the development and deployment of dynamic web sites. The term itself surfaced and became fashionable in early 2001 even though these tools (and their relatives) had been used in conjunction with each other for years prior.

Although each tool is developed separately and is intended to operate independently of the others, they are very well suited for the task of complex web development when used together.

Each element of the LAMP acronym provides an essential layer of functionality:

• Linux is the operating system;
• Apache is the web server;
• MySQL is the DBMS (database management system [or, database server]);
• PHP is an object-oriented web scripting language;
• Perl is a powerful, general-purpose, object-oriented scripting language;
• Python is yet another powerful, general-purpose, object-oriented scripting language.

The software that currently runs Wikipedia could be characterized as a LAMP application. Wikipedia's MediaWiki software is developed primarily under Linux, using the Apache HTTP Server, with its content being stored in a MySQL database, and the program logic being implemented in PHP.

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1 Relatives 2 Other LAMPs 3 External links

Relatives

• FreeBSD, an operating system;
• NetBSD, an operating system;
• OpenBSD, an operating system;
• thttpd, a web server;
• Caudium, a web server;
• AOLserver, a web server;
• Xitami, a web server;
• PostgreSQL, a database server;
• SAP DB, a database server;
• Tcl, a powerful, general-purpose scripting language;
• JavaServer Pages, a Java-based web scripting language;
• Pike, a powerful, general-purpose, object-oriented scripting language;
• Ruby, a powerful, general-purpose, object-oriented scripting language.

Other LAMPs

External links