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In this lab, we will look at several separate technologies that are used with the Apache web server to install, configure and run web applications.
The basic purpose of the Apache on its own does little more than web server is to serve text pages, images, and other static files. You can format those web-pages to look appear nice , but they won't have any would lack dynamic functionality (i.e. the ability to change colors or font- they will always look size when the samemouse moves over a link, button, etc). In other words using Apache web-server as a sole application would not make your web-pages more interesting.
To add life to a website more than just the web server is needed. A popular acronym is LAMP. It stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (or Python). This week we will set up this stack to give us a website that does webmail (send and receive email in a web browser).
