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Acronym for a development stack originally made up of Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP/Python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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Cost and Trade-offs of EC2 vs Hosted VPS for a LAMP site with 1M uniques

Does anyone have first hand experience with EC2 vs Hosted VPS cost analysis and trade-offs? It's for a LAMP site with 1M monthly uniques. It would be great to hear some opinions and any analysis reference materials. Thanks!
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Scaling a LAMP stack

Once you move beyond 100k hits/month, what would people in this community say is the biggest hurdle? My situ: Tons of static media (audio/video/images) being served off of S3/CDN, but being stored locally as backup (not served though). Everything…
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What is the typical maintenance required on a LAMP server?

I am in the process of setting up an Ubuntu LAMP server (cloud hosted) to run a few small websites. I am in the process of configuring the security settings, etc. Once I have it ready for production what types/amount of maintenance will I need to be…
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nikto probe warning messages

I have a pretty standard VPS running Ubuntu 8.1, Apache 2.2, PHP 5 etc. -- standard Lamp stack. I am using suhosin and have tried my best to plug the obvious stuff, since I'm the only user-- there's no SSH access except via pubkey on a non-standard…
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open-source LAMP package for simple accouting and receiving?

I am involved with a computer-based charity where we take donation of old equipment, often recycle it, mostly rehabilitate it and make it available through grants and 'adoptions', and sell some items. What we're looking for is a LAMP package that…
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ERROR 1006 (HY000): Can't create database 'webdata' (errno: 2 "No such file or directory")

On Debian 10, I'm logging into MariaDB with sudo mysql -u root -p Then trying to create a DB create database webdata; ERROR 1006 (HY000): Can't create database 'webdata' (errno: 2 "No such file or directory") Running the following: sudo mysqladmin…
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Do I need to have port 80 configured in LAMP for an HTTPS website?

I have a LAMP webserver, and on it there is https://sslhosting.cz/ domain. First I attach a general Let's Encrypt config file, which I changed to my needs: /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf # Baseline setting to Include for all Let's Encrypt…
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Running multiple sites on a LAMP with secure isolation

I have been administering a few LAMP servers with 2-5 sites on each of them. These are basically owned by the same user/client so there are no security issues except from attacks through vulnerable deamons or scripts. I am builing my own server and…
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Apache Suddenly Slow

Apache on my webserver is suddenly very slow. I have a 8 GB Ram, 4 CPU server at digitalocean with LAMP installed. What can I do to fix this? This is the top output: top - 10:37:15 up 93 days, 20:20, 1 user, load average: 0.22, 0.22, 0.28 Tasks:…
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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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Optimizing resources for a low-RAM LAMP server running WordPress?

How to minimize memory usage on LAMP? Virtual dedicated server, max 512 RAM, 20 GB drive space, it should run a Wordpress blog. Not sure for load, but lets say 2-5k visitors per day.
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IO related performance bottleneck on a LAMP server

I am administering a big LAMP server with some thousand users. About a week ago, things slowed down, and the only thing I see that the IO latency is increased dramatically. Users experience slow page loads, and I experience seconds of hanging when I…
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How can I block access to my website from certain countries using the LAMP stack?

I have a website that I do not want to be viewed by entire countries. The website is running on a LAMP server. How can I achieve this?
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Which PHP modules are required to install wordpress?

I have 5 wordpress sites. I use hostgator shared hosting for all of them. Now I have decided to switch on to a VPS. I got a unmanaged VPS and configuring it for wordpress. I am following this tutorial as suggested by a member from webhostingtalk :…
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Permission forbidden on localhost with apache2

Here is what I am trying to do. I tried to add another folder to apache and I get the following error when trying to acces testing/index.html. The idea is that I would like to have for every customer a folder like…
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