{"id":297,"date":"2009-06-29T20:13:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T20:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.garfnet.org.uk\/cms\/what-is-lampp\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T03:05:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T03:05:55","slug":"what-is-lampp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/cms\/2009\/06\/29\/what-is-lampp\/","title":{"rendered":"What is LAMPP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAMPP &#8211; sometimes written as &#8220;LAMP&#8221; &#8211; is an abbreviation for Linux | Apache | MySQL (database) | PHP ((Pretty) Hypertext Pre-processor) | Perl (programming language).<\/p>\n<p>Today, many Linux distributions come with Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl &amp; Python anyway &#8211; or they are very easily added from the distributions software repository.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to run LAMPP on Windows then a LAMMP package such as XAMPP is a good idea. This is available for free download from the Friends of Apache website. 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