Platforms, Servers, Databases, and PHP
PHP is truly cross-platform. It runs on the Windows operating system; most versions of Unix, including Linux; and Macintosh OS X. Support is provided for a range of Web servers including Apache (itself open-source and cross-platform), Microsoft Internet Information Server, WebSite Pro, the iPlanet Web Server, and Microsoft’s Personal Web Server. The latter is useful if you want to test your scripts offline on a Windows machine, although Apache can also be run on Windows.
On most servers PHP can be installed as a server module. In other words, it runs as part of the server process rather than as a separate application. PHP is also installed as a standalone command-line application.
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