An alternative running IIS in place of Apache is called WIMP. For example, an equivalent installation on the Microsoft Windows operating system family is known as WAMP. With the growing use of the archetypal LAMP, variations and retronyms appeared for other combinations of operating system, web server, database, and software language. The LAMP model has been adapted to other componentry, though typically consisting of free and open-source software. The term and the concept became popular because it was one of the first open-source software stacks for the web, with sufficient capabilities to host a variety of web frameworks, such as Joomla, WordPress and Drupal. Since then, O'Reilly Media and MySQL teamed up to popularize the acronym and evangelize its use.

The acronym LAMP was coined by Michael Kunze in the December 1998 issue of Computertechnik, a German computing magazine, as he demonstrated that a bundle of free and open-source software 'could be a feasible alternative to expensive commercial packages'.

The components of the LAMP stack are present in the software repositories of most Linux distributions.

PHP, Perl, or Python programming language.

MySQL for the relational database management system.

Įach letter in the acronym stands for one of its four open-source building blocks: However, LAMP now refers to a generic software stack model and its components are largely interchangeable. LAMP ( Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/ Perl/ Python) is an acronym denoting one of the most common software stacks for many of the web's most popular applications.

A high-level overview of LAMP's building blocks and overall system environment

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