The
Apache HTTP
Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP
server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows NT. The
goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible
server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.
Apache has been the most
popular web server on the Internet since April of 1996. The August 2002
Netcraft Web Server Survey found that 63% of the web sites on the Internet
are using Apache, thus making it more widely used than all other web servers
combined
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Perl
is a high-level programming language with an eclectic heritage written
by Larry Wall and a cast of thousands. It derives from the ubiquitous
C programming language and to a lesser extent from sed, awk, the Unix
shell, and at least a dozen other tools and languages. Perl's process,
file, and text manipulation facilities make it particularly well-suited
for tasks involving quick prototyping, system utilities, software tools,
system management tasks, database access, graphical programming, networking,
and world wide web programming. These strengths make it especially popular
with system administrators and CGI script authors, but mathematicians,
geneticists, journalists, and even managers also use Perl. Maybe you should,
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The
MySQL
(TM) software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust
SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended
for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding
into mass-deployed software. MySQL is a trademark of MySQL AB.
The MySQL software is
Dual Licensed. Users can choose to use the MySQL software as an Open Source/Free
Software product under the terms of the GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/)
or can purchase a standard commercial license from MySQL AB. See section
1.4 MySQL Support and Licensing.
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PHP,
which stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor"
is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is
especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Its
syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. The main goal
of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated
webpages quickly, but you can do much more with PHP. |