Web server platform
One understands by web server platform - also web platform
- a web server or
- a combination of operating system and web server or
- a combination of operating system, web server, relational database and web-enabled script language interpreted on the server side .
A web server distribution is an operating system-specific software package ( solution stack, software bundle ) which is used for simple installation and configuration and which contains web server, database and scripting language as well as tools for file transfer, database administration, web analysis, encryption and others.
Web server distributions, web server platforms:
- LAMP ... Linux + Apache , MySQL , PHP
- LEMP ... Linux + nginx , MySQL , PHP
- XAMPP ... Linux, Windows, macOS , Solaris + Apache , MySQL , PHP , Perl
- WAMP ... Windows + Apache , MySQL , PHP
- WIMP ... Windows + IIS , MySQL , PHP
- MAMP ... Mac OS X + Apache , MySQL , PHP