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Installing and Configuring PHP on AWS Amazon Linux AMI with Apache2
By: System Admin 10/03/2012

Apache2 is the standard Linux web server. It deals with all of the http and https requests sent to the server and complies PHP scripts. PHP is a simpler programming language which offers the power of the more complex object orientated languages without some of the more complex data management issues. PHP is commonly used to develop dynamic web content, especially content based upon a database like MySQL. In a practical sense, you must have Apache installed to use PHP on your server. If you do not have Apache currently installed, instructions can be found here. Installing PHP These instructions assume you have already setup an AWS instance and have an SSH client (like PuTTY) available.

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