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Web Stack

Vangie Beal
Last Updated May 24, 2021 7:59 am

The term used to refer to software stacks in Web development environments. The stack of software, mainly comprised of open source software, will contain an operating system, Web server, database server, and programming language. One of the most most well-known web stacks is LAMP.

See LAMP.

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