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Page 1 of 6 A dynamic website has many benefits apart from its dynamic behaviour. PHP has now become the de facto standard for dynamic website. A huge number of PHP scripts have been written by different individuals and are available for free or price on the Internet. Popular Content Management Software (CMS) like Joomla has also been written in PHP. Another common practice of dynamic website is to store the content in a database, commonly MySQL one. A full featured website or forum now runs PHP scripts backed by an MySQL database. Apache is the predominant web server program that common web developers don’t need to bother about because it is usually setup by web hosting providers. Some websites may also use Perl scripts that need a Perl interpreter software on the server.
Most of the software needed for the development of a successful website are freely available and run on common operating systems like Windows, Linux, MacOS. However, most hosting company use Linux on their web servers, few use Windows. Whatever is the platform, installing all of the software components (Apache, PHP, MySQL, Perl) for web development is hard and needs a substantial amount of knowledge. As most computer users use a PC and don’t pose advanced skill for installing them, it has been a problem. To ease this situation, there are a few attempts to combine all of them and put into a single installer so that general web developers can use it very easily. The uniform server and erfanserver are such two packages. There are also few other similar attempts including EasyPHP which I didn’t find much easy to use. This tutorial shows how to install and setup uniform server and use it to develop PHP/MySQL based website. |
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