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Definition of LAMP

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Definition: Short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, this is the open source "dream team" of Linux web server development. There are several million websites running on this. Linux is the underlying Operating System, Apache the web server, MySQL is the database and PHP the scripting language.

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There is also WAMP which runs on Windows instead of Linux.
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