

Linux Apache MySQL PHP, or P, the latter 'P', can also refer to Perl another major player in the opensource web service arena.


This wildly popular configuration is commonly referred to as LAMP, i.e. If your desktop runs on Linux, chances are that Apache, PHP, and MySQL are already installed for you. That's why in a process of learning it's possible to execute some commands on or Tutorialspoint, without installing anything.īelow we will introduce the steps needed to set up a working PHP environment with MySQL database on one's machine. Nevertheless, the procedures are complicated by the various combinations of different versions of web server, PHP and database (most often MySQL). To be frank, PHP is quite easy to set up compared to other monsters like J2EE. Since PHP is a server-side technology, you should naturally expect to invest some time in setting up a server environment for production, development or learning.
