This How-To guides you through the steps to install and configure the most popular and powerful Apache-2.2.8 web server with PHP-5.2.5 and Mysql-5.0.45.
This How-To can be used either on Linux with Kernel version 2.4 and higher or on FreeBSD-6.x systems.
From wikipedia, the definition of a web server is as follows:
A computer program that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients, which are known as web browsers (e.g. Firefox, Internet Explorer), and serving them HTTP responses along with optional data contents, which usually are web pages such as HTML documents and linked objects (images, etc.).
Without Web servers, the Internet would just be as dull as sending and receiving emails.
It is the web server which provides the content and information that we are used to seeing these days. It’s the web server’s job to deliver both static and dynamic contents to end-users via browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Apache is to web servers what Bind is to DNS servers. Apache is a high performance and scalable web server notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web. According to the data provided by news.netcraft.com, 50% of all web sites are running on Apache web servers.
In this guide, we will install and configure a simple Apache-2.2.8 web server with PHP-5.2.4 and Mysql-5.0.45.
