Assignment 3

You are being tasked with drawing, in a tool of your choice, a thorough and valid LAMP architecture... Please save your models as an image and post your answers to your blog with any assumptions or futher explanation in the extended entry.

Assignment 3


Hopefully this is right :)

There are quite a few resources on the web to set up the LAMP architecture - Main differences being what flavor of Linux you're using and different versions of software.

The sources that I consulted to build the drawing above:

• Setting up LAMP Platform - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
• Setting up Your PHP Envrionment Using Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP
• Dustin's Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) Guide
• Installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP on Linux

"There are two ways of using PHP with Apache: as a dynamic module that can be loaded into the Web server at run-time, or as a static module that is directly compiled into the Web server code." (source) - The articles that mentioned this fact preferred using PHP as an Apache module for maximum flexibility - Therefore, this is reflected in the diagram above.

A few other notes to narrate the diagram:

• Apache and MySQL are built upon Linux
• The web server and database server can be separate entities

Hopefully that should do it. Let me know if you have any questions.

-Kirk