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LAMP refers to a stack of web technologies based on Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python.

LAMP, (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl/Python), is an acronym for a solution stack of free, open source software, referring to the first letters of: Linux (operating system), Apache HTTP Server, MySQL (database software) and PHP (or sometimes Perl or Python), principal components to build a viable general purpose web server.

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How to store private encrypted user data in the database, but make them available to other chosen users?

firstly, I apologize if my question sounds little confusing, I will try my best to describe my scenario as detailed as possible: I have website where user can input their personal data about themselves. They are mainly health data, so it's very…
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What are alternatives to SQL database storage for a web site?

An SQL database is overkill if your storage needs are small. When I was young and dumb, I used a text file and flock()ed it when I needed to access it. This doesn't scale, but I still feel that non-database solutions have been completely ignored in…
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How much of Linux should I learn in order to deploy web sites using LAMP?

Being a Windows developer I'm currently working on my own project using LAMP. I understand what I need to know of PHP and MySQL, but Linux looks huge and it's not clear where to start and what is enough given my goals. And my goals are to grasp…
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Best practices for deploying tools & scripts to production?

I've got a number of batch processes that run behind the scenes for a Linux/PHP website. They are starting to grow in number and complexity, so I want to bring a small amount of process to bear on them. My source tree has a bunch of cpp files and…
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WARNING: Module mcrypt ini file doesn't exist under /etc/php/7.2/mods-available

I've been trying to install phpmyadmin in Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS having a lamp installed, php 7.2, mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.2.12-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2 and apache2. and I am following this article from digitalOcean,…
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Simple document repository

Please recommend me a simple web-based document repository for keeping my small company documents (.DOCs, .PDFs) so i can access them from everywhere. There are many available on the internet, but they are heavy and filled with unnecessary features…
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How to enable mod_rewrite in LAMP on ubuntu?

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS linux on my machine. I've already installed LAMP on it. Now I want to enable the mod_rewrite module. I did google a lot and tried lots of tricks but couldn't be able to enable mod_rewrite. Can anyone help me to enable the…
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Best practices for withstanding launch day traffic burst

We are working on a website for a client that (for once) is expected to get a fair amount of traffic on day one. There are press releases, people are blogging about it, etc. I am a little concerned that we're going to fall flat on our face on day…
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Is it good to have Memcache, APC and Varnish on LAMP servers

I have 3 web servers I need to optimize. I currently have just a little over 2000 unique visitors a day and I want to improve performances on my servers to make sure when I will get more traffic everything will run smooth. I read (on some blogs)…
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Is there any major difference between XAMPP and LAMP?

Recently I sent my CV to a small company which required a web developer, but one condition was that I should know how to work with LAMP. So I took part in the contest, but today I started to wonder if those packages are as similar as I think. So,…
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php fatal error: class sqlite3 is not found in

Im using ubuntu 12.04, and php 5.x I need to use sqlite3 in it but Im getting an error of php fatal error: class sqlite3 not found I done all the installation processes, like $ sudo apt-get install php5-cli php5-dev make $ sudo apt-get install…
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Decent Video Chat API?

Just wondering. I'm looking to build a small web application with a single page. It will essentially be a video chat page so I'm looking for an API I can use or any other solutions? This would be run on a LAMP stack.
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I get "laravel: command not found" on Ubuntu 20.04

I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), installed Apache, PHP, MySQL and PHP Composer seemingly without issue. However, I still cannot get laravel -V to give me a version number. I have looked at a multitude of YouTube videos and…
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Is it dumb to develop for LAMP on WAMP?

After becoming somewhat estranged open source, and spending some years developing web applications in ASP.NET, I'm going to start doing quite a lot of PHP / MySQL development. I've quite painlessly installed WampServer to get a development…
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Are there any disadvantages to using Bitnami vs a native server stack?

I have read about the advantages of using a BitNami stack for LAMP development, now I am wondering if there are any drawbacks to using BitNami vs manually installing PHP, MySQL, and Apache separately. I use Mac OS but I would be interested on how it…
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