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Acronym for a development stack originally made up of Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP/Python

LAMP is an acronym that refers to a stack of open source software used in development. The initial letters come from the following components:

  • Linux (operating system)
  • Apache HTTP Server (web server)
  • MySQL (database software)
  • Perl/PHP/Python (programming language)

Similar terms are used when on other operating systems while keeping the software suite:

  • Microsoft Windows (WAMP)
  • Mac OS (MAMP)
  • Solaris (SAMP)
  • OpenBSD (OAMP)
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LAMP Server Performance Tips

What performance tips can be offered to someone running a LAMP server? In the instance that something is Distribution specific, I'm targeting Debian.
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How hard is it to host from home?

I have always payed a company to host on dedicated servers which is really expensive, 1 of my sites has 2 servers right now, a web/http server and a seperate mysql server. What would it take for me to do this from home? I would need a LAMP setup. …
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How does Server Side Technology actually work?

I keep hearing about the popular LAMP and WAMP configurations for the server side and also know that LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl/Ruby etc.. But I don't know how all of these integrate with each other. For instance If I have…
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Sysadmin change tracking/control app that's LAMP-based, free, wonderful?

I'm looking for a change tracking app. It needs to be LAMP-based and free (as in beer). I'm specifically looking for something for sysadmins. Sysadmin makes a change on a server and logs a note of it in this web-based app. Two days later someone…
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The best way to learning Linux/Apache server administration

What is the best way to start learning Linux/Apache server administration? I am a web developer using LAMP platform.
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Average memory used on a LAMP server

How much memory (RAM) would the average LAMP production server use, assuming little-to-no traffic, barebones except Apache2, PHP 5.3, MySQL5 installed and running?
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LAMP Server: (104) Connection reset by peer

A user reported the following problem when attempting to visit www.airlinemogul.com. The requested URL could not be retrieved While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.airlinemogul.com/airlinemogul/index.php The following error was…
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Podcast byte-range requests

Background Apple podcasts must be served from a byte-range enabled server. This allows users to stream episodes. More info here: http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html. I have Lamp stack Apache/PHP/Mysql. When I test with wget or Curl…
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sporadic homepage timeouts Apache2

Running apache2/php/mysql on an Ubuntu instance on slicehost. Monitoring homepage accessibility using offsite monitoring tools which test a TCP connection to port 80. A few times a day the homepage times out (not responsive) or long load time (> 40…
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How many requests per second does your live-right-now LAMP server handle?

I've had newrelic setup for about a week now, and its giving me interesting new numbers, but I want to compare them to what others are getting. If you don't have newrelic you can also get these numbers from various cacti or munin type graphs. My…
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Is it recommended to use XAMPP(software bundle) on production environment and why?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_%28software_bundle%29 Using it will save lots of time, though...
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lamp-server package versus installing individual components

Is it better to install a LAMP platform on Linux (Ubuntu) using sudo aptitude install lamp-server or by installing each individual component separately? Why or why not? Thanks!
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Guidance for LAMP memory configuration

I'm trying to configure a LAMP server. Actually I opted for Nginx but I guess it's irrelevant to the topic. The server is to be used as a wordpress host. I'm planning to use APC to fully cache pages (APC Object Cache Backend and Batcache…
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Package to enable php from command line, and execution of bgr processes with exec

I've ubuntu 12.04 running LAMP. Script requirements are: Ability to run PHP from the command line (CLI) with exec() Ability to execute background processes with exec("binary > /dev/null &") For the first should I install php-cli? or some other…
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Optimized/dedicated LAMP-server

is there an distro of linux, wich is ready-to-use /optimized for running apache/mysql/php? If no, any how-to-set-up-and-optimize blog/document?
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