What is a LAMP stack?

Solution 1:

The reason they call it a stack is because each level derives off its base layer. Your operating system, Linux, is the base layer. Then Apache, your web daemon sits on top of your OS. Then your database stores all the information served by your web daemon, and PHP (or any P* scripting language) is used to drive and display all the data, and allow for user interaction.

Don't be overly concerned with the term 'stack'. People really just mean software suite or bundle, but you're using it just fine I am sure as you are.

Solution 2:

Linux operating system

Apache web server

MySQL database

and PHP

Reference: LAMP (software bundle)

The "stack" term means stack! That means if you have experience in working with these technologies/framework or not. Since all these come together in a LAMP package, which you can download and install, they call it a stack.

Solution 3:

That simply means using Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP as your operating system, web server, database, and programming language, respectively.

Solution 4:

LAMP means: L = Linux (OS) A = Apache (web server) M = MySQL (database) P = PHP (language)

From LAMP (Wikipedia):

Short for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, an open-source Web development platform, also called a Web stack, that uses Linux as the operating system, Apache as the Web server, MySQL as the RDBMS and PHP as the object-oriented scripting language. Perl or Python is often substituted for PHP.

Solution 5:

For anyone still looking into this in order to learn specifically what a stack is, the term "stack" is referring to a "solution stack." A solution stack is simply a complete set of software to address a given problem, usually by combining to provide the platform or infrastructure necessary. This term is the parent of both "server stack" and "web stack." Accordingly, a LAMP stack is a specific and complete set of software specifically aimed at serving dynamic content over the web.

Some extra reading:

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/28154/solution-stack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solution_stack