Beginning PHP5, Apache, and MySQL® Web Development

Beginning PHP5, Apache, and MySQL® Web Development

Elizabeth Naramore, Jason Gerner, Yann Le Scouarnec, Jeremy Stolz, Michael K. Glass

Configuring Your Installation

You’ve spent your hard-earned money and purchased this book, so you undoubtedly know the enormous benefits of using PHP, Apache, and MySQL together to create your Web site. But in case you found this book on your desk one Monday morning with a sticky note reading “Learn this!,” this chapter looks at the basics of PHP, MySQL, and Apache to show you what makes the “AMP” combination so popular. This chapter also walks you through the procedure for installing all three components of the AMP module and advises you on how to best configure the software to meet your specific needs

Brief Intro to PHP, Apache, MySQL, and Open Source

PHP, Apache, and MySQL are all part of the open source group of software programs. The open source movement is a collaboration of some of the finest minds in computer programming. By allowing the open exchange of information, programmers from all over the world contribute to make a truly powerful and efficient piece of software available to everyone. Through the contributions of many people to the publicly available source code, bugs get fixed, improvements are made, and a good software program becomes a great one over time.

A Brief History of Open Source Initiatives

The term open source was coined in 1998 after Netscape decided to publish the source code for its popular Navigator browser. This announcement prompted a small group of software developers who had been long-time supporters of the soon-to-be open source ideology to formally develop the Open Source Initiatives (OSI) and the Open Source Definition.

Although the OSI ideology was initially promoted in the hacker community, upon Netscape’s release of Navigator’s source code, programmers from all walks of life began to offer suggestions and fixes to improve the browser’s performance. The OSI mission was off and running, as the mainstream computing world began to embrace the idea.

Linux became the first operating system that could be considered open source (although BSD was a close runner-up, distributed from Berkeley in 1989), and many programs followed soon thereafter. Large software corporations, such as Corel, began to offer versions of their programs that worked on Linux machines.

Although there are now numerous classifications of OSI open source licenses, any software that bears the OSI Certification seal can be considered open source because it has passed the Open Source Definition test. These programs are available from a multitude of Web sites; the most popular is www.sourceforge.net, which houses more than 83,000 open source projects.

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