LAMP, MAMP, ...
Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (/Perl / Python) = LAMP; the well-known acronym for one of the most popular development- and runtime- platforms for Internet- and web-based applications.
Great for dynamic, reliable, responsive, and scalable solutions for both Internet and intranet systems.
10 Popular Web 2.0 Projects Built on LAMP
| Digg | A website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet. Links and stories are submitted, voted and commented in a social and democratic spirit. |
| Blip.tv | A video sharing service designed for creators of user-generated content. |
| Technorati | An Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google, Yahoo and IceRocket |
| A social news website on which users can post links to content on the web. | |
| A free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”. Text posts are loaded up to the Twitter website directly or via message service (SMS), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook. | |
| Wikipedia | A free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project. |
| del.icio.us | A social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. |
| flickr | An image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. |
| YouTube | A video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. |
| MySpace | A popular social networking website offering an interactive, user- submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos for teenagers and adults internationally |
Source: www.venturecake.com “Web 2.0 is Build on Open Source”
Linux-based (LAMP), Mac OS (MAMP)-based, ...
Variants of this plays on the same theme and include e.g. MAMP (Mac OS X, ...), WAMP (Windows, ...), LAPP (Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, ...
2 1&1 refer to 1and1.com hosting computer at this time hosting among others the comgt web. 3 1&1 is secretive about processes and files; best source for details is probably running phpinfo.php. |
Other combinations
LAMP FAMP MAMP OAMP SAMP WAMP LAPP FAPP MAPP OAPP SAPP WAPP LAMR FAMR MAMR OAMR SAMR WAMR LAPR FAPR MAPR OAPR SAPR WAPR |
XAMPP
"XAMPP is a free and open source cross-platform web server package, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages." [wikipedia.org/wiki/XAMPP]
* X (meaning cross-platform)
* Apache HTTP Server
* MySQL
* PHP
* Perl
References, Read More
- Mac: MAMP from living-e: www.mamp.info,
living-e's web site: www.living-e.de/en.
- Version 1.7.1: 127 MB to download (note: very, very, slow server - takes a looong time to download; at least in Mar '08)
- when installed and running: localhost:8888/MAMP/?language=English
- Various packaged stacks - LAMP (w/ Apache 1.3 and 2, MySQL 4 and 5, PHP 4 and 5, Python 2.3 and 2.4), LAPP, MAMP: bitrock.com/download_webstacks_download.html from bitrock.com.
- wide search on LAMP and MAMP: www.google.com/search?q=mamp+lamp
- Playing Scrabble With the LAMP Stack - Systems Management
News On The Web,
July 1, 2008
on difficulties managing different stacks. sysmannews.com ArticleID=32439
- Playing Scrabble With the LAMP Stack - Systems Management News On The Web (PDF; Systems Management Magazine; 2008-07-16)
Updated 2011-10-22