LAMP (software bundle)

[1] Each letter in the acronym stands for one of its four open-source building blocks: The components of the LAMP stack are present in the software repositories of most Linux distributions.

The acronym LAMP was coined by Michael Kunze in the December 1998 issue of Computertechnik, a German computing magazine, as he demonstrated that a bundle of free and open-source software "could be a feasible alternative to expensive commercial packages".

With the growing use of the archetypal LAMP, variations and retronyms appeared for other combinations of operating system, web server, database, and software language.

[7] The LAMP bundle can be combined with many other free and open-source software packages, including: As another example, the software which Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects use for their underlying infrastructure is a customized LAMP stack with additions such as Linux Virtual Server (LVS) for load balancing and Ceph and Swift for distributed object storages.

[citation needed] Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open-source software development and distribution.

A wide variety of features are supported, and many of them are implemented as compiled modules which extend the core functionality of Apache.

PHP commands can optionally be embedded directly into an HTML source document rather than calling an external file to process data.

Perl 5 gained widespread popularity in the late 1990s as a CGI scripting language for the Web, in part due to its parsing abilities.

It features a dynamic type system, automatic memory management, a standard library, and strict use of whitespace.

Specific approaches are required for websites that serve large numbers of requests, or provide services that demand high uptime.

A high-level overview of LAMP's building blocks and overall system environment
A high-level overview of LAMP's determining components ( Firefox serves just as a browser example.)