This is my first time developing with PHP. I have been googling around but still, not got the answer.
On my Centos 7 server, I have installed LAMP.
I want to know what the web server is and what the application server is.
As I know, the web server is Apache HTTP Server.
What about application server?
From wiki, it said PHP-FPM
From Stackoverflow, they said Quercus, Zend Server and appserver.io
First of all you need to understand that Apache is the Web Application Server.
LAMP is an archetypal model of web service stacks, named as an acronym of the names of its original four open-source components: the GNU/Linux operating system, the Apache HTTP Server, the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), and the PHP programming language. The LAMP components are largely interchangeable and not limited to the original selection. As a solution stack, LAMP is suitable for building dynamic web sites and web applications.
There are different types of application servers like file servers, email servers and web servers. So you don't need an additional server as an application server. Apache is your Web Application Server, also called Web Server.
