LAMP (application stack)
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LAMP is an acronym for Linux Apache MySQL PHP, a very common framework for developping web sites.
- Linux is an well-known open source operating system, very common on many web servers ;
- Apache is a famous HTTP Server, very common in many personnal or professionnal applications, with many modules that expand its functionnalities ;
- mySQL is an open source database ;
- PHP is a server-side programming language, object-oriented, well interfaced with Apache.
Alternative "P" languages
Other languages can fit with the "P" letter and are used as well to implements web sites : Perl and Python. They are generally natively installed on Linux systems.