Server Side Scripting

  • PHP is one language for writing programs to generate web content
  • How does it work?
    • Module of Apache
    • When .php file is requested, apache hands request off to php module
    • Module runs the script and captures the output
    • Output is returned to the web client

How to configure it

Need the following:

  • apache2
  • libapache2-mod-php
  • php-mysql
  • php